It feels like “Chasing That Feeling” and The Name Chapter: FREEFALL just happened two months ago. I’m still processing it, really. I wanted to have my full review of The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION up before this one. But time got away from me. I wanted to go ahead and get this out while my thoughts on it were still fresh and before my April Best Kpop Comebacks & Debuts article comes out. Funny because I also wanted to have my minisode1: Blue Hour review up too before this post. I feel like both would have provided more context to why minisode1: Blue Hour is one of my favorite TXT albums and ..read more

Jaeyoon is currently completing his miltary enlistment, and I didn’t realize that this thumbnail is the most recent and current lineup pic. I’m not being shady. I just noticed it after I was about it hit publish . Intro I forgot when I initially said I wanted to get this article out. But I know it’s been MONTHS. Unintentionally, of course, but it’s finally happening now. If you’ve been following ATK since the beginning, you know I’ve spent a lot of time talking about SF9 on here over the years. I’ve been a casual FANTASY since “Now or Never”. I’ll get into that more later, but it took me som ..read more

I was slightly stressed about only having five groups in my monthly faves article this month. I almost skipped March, lol. Really this month I listened to my February fave songs along with like random stuff I have saved on Spotify. That is a good sign though because the more music I listen to throughout the year, the more fun it is to pull together my top fave songs/albums of the year. I forget what I like less when I’m listening to it more. So yeah, I guess that extremely curated stuff I was talking about earlier in the year, it’s happening sooner than I expected. I think that just means spr ..read more

This year, I made a playlist of all my favorite albums for me to go back and listen to, so I was better prepared to make this article. So of course I listened to it one or two times on shuffle, then stopped updating it or going back to it at all, lol. If anything, this article is designed more like my previous fave albums of the year. The albums I listened to most and couldn’t stop thinking about are on here. I do have some honorable mentions: WayV – Phantom A December 2022 release I listened to nonstop in 2023. I mentioned in my WayV fave songs article that I regretted not including it on m ..read more

It feels weird having such a condensed list this year. But these songs that had me the most hooked and listening to them nonstop on repeat. I have these numbered, but really 19 – 11 could aren’t super locked to those slots. You could swap these songs around, and I think I could argue their spot still fit. Really, the only ones I feel 100% confident in their placement are songs 3 – 1. But it’d be weird to have a listicle and not have the majority of it numbered, lol. So let’s get into it! 20.) Love It – YOUNITE I had to pick between this and “Kick It 4 Now” being 20, and it feels wrong havi ..read more

I take back what I said about November being mid, lol. I completed my listen through of my playlist much faster than I expected. Man… it was slim pickings this month. I think it’s been a few Decembers like this. People either released their last major release October/November or wait until January to release something bigger. So…uh… let’s get into it! Makes my job easier, I guess . Yukika – Time-Lapse SLAAAAAAAPPPPSSSSS. We knew Miss Yukika would drop another flawless album. Time Lapse is a cover/remake album, but not everyone knows how to do a cover right. I find my favorites keep enough ..read more

I started listening to my November playlist pretty early into November. So it really wasn’t until the second half of the month I fell off, lol. But it felt a bit mid this month. I wasn’t that thrilled with Stray Kids, WayV, ZEROBASEONE, or VIXX’s releases. So that was disappointing for me. It felt like there was really only one or two songs off albums I really liked and saved. Not a lot of full length or mini albums from start to finish that I was wild about. So let’s jump into it! Weeekly – ColoRise So far, ColoRise is my favorite album of Weeekly’s. It’s chill and fun at the same time ..read more

Another year flew by so far . It’s always fun for me to look back at these, because I forget how much happened in the previous year, and it’s fun to look at what actually happened in Kpop versus what I wished for. Previously I’ve done a recap on what was achieved on the blog over the last year and goals for the next. But at this point, I want to go back to basics, lol. I got close to some of my goals, but I never really hit any major milestone for the blog or any other personal goals of mine other than finding a job I enjoy. So not a complete loss, lessons were learned. New things were tried ..read more

I grossly underestimated how much energy my new job would need going into the holidays. And I’m still not going back to my regular schedule until next week . Hey y’all, long time no see. Happy 2024! I did not mean to be gone from the site for so long. But I just have not been feeling up to writing or really keeping up with new music. I’ve literally been listening to a bunch of WOODZ, TXT, and ENHYPEN the last few months. Any new music has really been from what I last talked about in my October faves article. And a lot of like Pop music mixes Spotify has been recommending from songs I’ve alr ..read more

I ain’t forget about y’all, I’ve just been busy with work, and having family in town, lol. I thought I had the October faves post done except for like 4 or 5 releases, but when I did my final sweep, I found a few more releases I wanted to check out. Then I started this 8-5 (some days are 8-4 and some are 9-5), and I’ve been struggling to get anything done once I get home and have free time to myself. Then the weekends lately have been a blur. I get some stuff completed off my to-do list, then add more to it, and it just ends up evening out. SO! I had a few ideas, well 2 really. Combine my O ..read more