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Listening Party: xikers 'HOUSE OF TRICKY: HOW TO PLAY' EP (Patreon)

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2023-08-30 04:02:44
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Tesa

As I said, this is my favourite album released this year! My favourite song keeps changing - I started with Run, and now I'm constantly replaying Skater and Homeboy (which is actually the second title track!). I love the epicness of the songs (especially songs #1, 2, and 5), they sound so big, dreamy, nostalgic, and fill me up with emotions that are ready to burst along with the beat and beautiful vocals. They really showcased their own sound and I'm so excited for their next project!

Anonymous

Hey PD you may have seen it already but if you haven't the track 'Homeboy' is actually a title track and they just released the MV for it not long ago!

M.C.

Their sound is really pushed by rap and something they do really well or at least better than most is the incorporation of auto tune. It adds to the grandness of the song and distorts it at times and it kind of goes along with their concept. I think they utilize the amount of members in this group well too, like they do harmonies really well and the line distribution is better than you'd think for a 10 member group, especially a rookie one. Yunjun and Seeun didn't get many lines in their debut title tracks, but it feels more even this time(unfortunately Junghoon is on hiatus right now, so we'll see how it changes when he gets back but I feel like I can see where he'd go)

Angie

one of my favorite albums this year!!!

Milli Mey

It's finally here! I have been looking forward to this listening party for weeks already

Milli Mey

I don't know what upcoming album might still catch my attention but I am honestly already pretty sure this is my album of the year. In fact I have a small story to tell, a small exciting thing that happened to me which led to this album becoming possibly one of my favorites of all time. When this album came out I had just started reading the manga of Haikyuu, a really fantastic sports shounen about volleyball for which I can also strongly recommend the so far existing 4 seasons of the anime. So, as I always enjoy listening to music while reading manga since a good song can enhance the experience, I decided to use Xikers' new album for that as I did quite like the songs. However, while I was reading those 400 chapters non stop straight for 5 days and repeatedly listening to this album as bgm, I realized that the album's sound fits the manga's vibe inconceivably well. Do or Die and Koong fell a bit outside of that but the other 4 songs started feeling to me like Haikyuu's official OST. I cried my eyes out reading that story about the youth you only experience once and the insatiable thirst for winning and going beyond your own capabilities while listening to this epic album about youth, summer, running, flying. Even the fact that Homeboy mentions flying and "Fly!" is the most important slogan of Haikyuu and I just happened to consume both at the same time is still mind blowing to me. If I now listen to those songs I see Haikyuu in front of my eyes and if I hear of Haikyuu I have to immediately think of Xikers' album. I've never felt a connection between story and music as strongly as with this. Skater is like you are standing right here, right now in your youth that you only experience once. Homeboy is like flying towards greater heights so high one could never imagine. Run is like running towards your dreams and never stopping. And Sunny Side is like reminiscing about that one unforgettable summer from your youth when you are no longer young. Ah, one more thing. With this album Xikers literally managed to become my new second favorite kpop group right behind ATEEZ :') Just how does KQ manage to do this to me?

Alison Renaud

Greatest debut boy group of all time!! Im so greatful to exist at the same time as them! I'm still not over their debut album so it's gonna take a bit for this one to sink in but it's incredible! It really is unfair that they have ateez entire production crew including HongJoong making their music. But yet they are totally their own entity. They also have a lot to prove coming up behind ATEEZ, but I don't have a doubt in my mind they will be just as big and influential if not more after a few years. I'm honestly scared for what they're gonna do and bring to us. Side note: Nine.I had a comeback and mini album recently! Also I think youd love their past mini albums, they are so light and airy and some of their b-sides literally sound like a rainbow (I don't even know what a rainbow would sound like besides their b-sides).

WiseSmellyLegs

I get why you are mentioning Block B here and there, but it’s good to keep in mind that they debuted under Brand New Stardom and then transfered to Seven Seasons, which later on became a subsidiary of KQ, which was created later on. So basically Ateez as a group doesn’t have any big of connection to Block B as xikers has to Ateez. Also the production of Block B was heavily based on Zico or time to time Park Kyung.

✨meganELK✨
>>116366380

never would I have thought to connect this album to Haikyuu but you're SO RIGHT LMAO

LoLo

You put into words exactly how I feel about xikers - they are SCARY. their debut album is definitely my favorite album from this year and it really amazes me how GOOD they are right off the bat. I've become so enthralled by them and I'm really looking forward to seeing what greatness they accomplish in the future! Stray Kids is my ult group and I haven't seen a group debut with so much energy like them until xikers came (except MAYBE DKB). I feel very positive about this group and I think they will go on to accomplish great things.

Erica

This album really solidified it for me, I am obsessed with the KQ sound. Ever since getting into Kpop, Ateez's music has spoken to me in a way that no other group has been able to do. I think I'm really attracted to epic sounding songs. When xikers debuted, I was a bit nervous because I didn't want them to sound just like them, but I also wanted to like their music. And of course I loved their debut album, but I could hear Ateez in a lot of the songs as you mentioned. This comeback was so distinctly different from Ateez while being absolutely amazing and I'm obsessed with it. KQ knows what they're doing and I am convinced that I'm the biggest Eden-ary fan out there. Can't wait for more music from xikers (and Ateez) and seeing how much more obsessed I can get

Brooklyn

Fair warning that this is a long comment. I also don’t mean to talk about Ateez so much but it qualifies how I feel about KQ and xikers. I basically talk about the harmony in Homeboy and the makings of KQ’s sound. Gonna echo what you said at the end. I think in trying to establish a KQ sound in xikers as a brother group, there ended up being far too much Ateez influence. This also rubbed lots of Atiny’s the wrong way bc Hongjoong is involved in so few of his own group’s songs but has now been involved in all of xikers’ (the first album alone doubled Hongjoong’s output with KQ). So that combined with KQ booking them both for the exact same events for a whole year basically it just felt like KQ was making Ateez 2.0. But now with this album I think it proves an interesting aspect to KQ. Neither xikers’ nor Ateez’s debuts actually match their current sound very much. Their second albums both firmly established a clear, precise, masterfully crafted, and unique sound for each group. Ep. 2 is still one of my favourite Ateez albums for that reason, and I feel exactly the same about this album for xikers. It stands out and I believe it will truly cement their sound for the rest of their career. I think KQ thought a family sound was just recreating Ateez with the first album, but with this project they have now used Hongjoong and Edenary to establish a unique path for xikers while keeping just enough of that Ateez flair to define what they want their company sound to be. I love every single song on this album and it will definitely be in my top five projects of the year. Also with Homeboy I *think* this is what’s going on with the harmony in the chorus. I am honestly too tired rn to figure out the chords precisely (first week back to school as a music teacher myself hahaha), but it has to do with the distance between the two sets of notes. That distance is called an interval, and in music theory different intervals (and chords) play different roles in establish things like mood, momentum, and pay off, and this means there’s lots of things notes “should not” or typically do not do. One of those things is moving in what are called parallel 5ths. This means two notes that are 5 notes apart should not then move in the same direction (up or down) to two new notes that are also 5 notes apart. It sounds too open, unsettling, and our ears can’t predict where it will go (or resolve) too, which is a very important feature of pop music. Not only does the “we fly” part move in parallel 5ths, but it shifts between them multiple times and on top of a funky chords. But then the notes finally split apart in different directions the fourth time and it takes us to a very stable chord whose only function is to bring us back to the “home” chord (which is typically the first chord in a section). That resolve is one of the most satisfying phenomena in all of music, and it just feels soooo much more satisfying because we had to wait and sit on those unstable notes for so long before we got there. So basically TLDR the notes created so much suspense because our ears can’t predict where they’ll go, and that suspense then pays off and resolves itself. Sorry for the long-winded comment. But as someone who ults Ateez and is now bordering on ulting xikers, and as a musician, this album gives me so many things to talk about. Super impressed with this project and I cannot wait to see what’s to come for these boys.

crusty toes

homeboy was actually the song with a drill beat which is so weird but new to me since i’ve never heard anyone use a drill beat for a refreshing rnb type song but it works and it sounds really good so i’m glad they experimented with it!