Hot Air Balloon: Fourth Week of April, 2023 (1 Viewer)

[velvet]

Welcome to another edition of Hot Air Balloon!

It was a pretty solid week with a lot of comebacks and releases.
The Wind's pre-debut single is as refreshing as it gets in the boygroup scene, and iKon and Epex both released good singles.
On top of that, album standouts this week are Seventeen, Taeyang and Woodz.

Top releases


































B-side recommendations








Throwback of the week

This song has been stuck in my head all week




Hope you enjoyed this week's recap. Stay slaying!!!

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[Myth]

I loveddd this week. Woodz and Xdi released solid albums and I enjoyed ikons, taeyang, and blitzer too! Especially Blitzer! I was surprised how much I liked it!

 

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Throwback of the week

This song has been stuck in my head all week




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YES

 

[velvet]

I loveddd this week. Woodz and Xdi released solid albums and I enjoyed ikons, taeyang, and blitzer too! Especially Blitzer! I was surprised how much I liked it!

Such an amazing week. I didn't check out as much albums as I was meant to which explains the low bside count but I bet xdi has something good up their sleeves in the mini. Blitzer's comeback is just fun af, it might not be the best song but it's defenitely enjoyable and has that energy that my turn has.

Hoping for more ggs next week though, this really was a sausage party

 

[ChiaraStar169]

I'm LOVING The Wind, Xodiac, and CMDM Boys so far! Gotta check them out!

 

[snsd2beg]

A very fun week this has been! Xikers was really a standout for me. Also, hurrah for Girls' Day shoutout!

 

[velvet]

I'm LOVING The Wind, Xodiac, and CMDM Boys so far! Gotta check them out!

Tbe Wind I'm really looking forward to. They seem to be doing like gfriend but boys type of thing and im into it!!! CMDM, for their budget, is pretty good too

 

[shadow]

I’ve only checked out a few of these, and so far I really enjoyed EPEX’s - I just love the way it sounds and the the MV is just so aesthetically pleasing <3
I also liked Seventeen’s! I was actually considering on checking out The Wind’s predebut release track, so I’ll do that later on. I also have to check out Woodz’s too!
I’ve also checked out BLITZERS and Xdinary Heroes but I didn’t like and enjoy either of those songs that they released. 😕

edit: I forgot to mention that I did check out ONEUS’ as well! And I’ve just checked out The Wind. Both songs are okay imo ^^

 

[the101]

I liked this thread so came back to look for your past editions.

I liked Shoong and a pair of bsides on Taeyang's EP better than the title track, which I added to my playlists.





I preferred the bsides on Xdrinary Heroes too.







I didn't care for anything on the Woodz or Seventeen albums. I checked out all the songs you listed. I liked the Xodiac song and vocals, so off to check them out some more! I liked the Epex song and vocals too but then I realized that was the Kristallnacht group so that was a hard pass for me.

 

[velvet]

I liked this thread so came back to look for your past editions.

I liked Shoong and a pair of bsides on Taeyang's EP better than the title track, which I added to my playlists.





I preferred the bsides on Xdrinary Heroes too.







I didn't care for anything on the Woodz or Seventeen albums. I checked out all the songs you listed. I liked the Xodiac song and vocals, so off to check them out some more! I liked the Epex song and vocals too but then I realized that was the Kristallnacht group so that was a hard pass for me.

Thanks for checking out the series!

Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to listen to XH's album last week (because I was busy + I didn't think that the album was for me since I'm not a K-band person) but I listened to it this week and I really like Good enough and Dear H. I also prefer Taeyang's bsides over the singles he released

 

[the101]

Thanks for checking out the series!

Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to listen to XH's album last week (because I was busy + I didn't think that the album was for me since I'm not a K-band person) but I listened to it this week and I really like Good enough and Dear H. I also prefer Taeyang's bsides over the singles he released

I'm not usually a k-band person either. I quite hated XH's first single and didn't pay them any attention until their second album was promoting with something NCT and I heard it on a music show, liked the track and dug into the album and quite enjoyed it. Then they came out with this new one where I also hate the tt and think "man, if I hadn't bothered to check out that second album, I would never look for music from this group based on these tt." LOL