Hwa / Naiite - Split EP Review

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Kimchi style Grindcore!

The underground music scene of Seoul, South Korea, is currently breeding some of the most conceptually urgent and sonically violent extreme art on the planet. Far removed from the polished glitz of mainstream media, a localized network of musicians is using the frantic template of grindcore to process profound psychological trauma, societal isolation, and the modern erosion of genuine human connection. The newly unleashed split release between HWA and NAIITE serves as a definitive, polarizing monument to this movement. Bringing together two distinct four-piece and three-piece units operating out of the South Korean capital, this 16-track compilation juxtaposes technical, emotionally raw vulnerability against weaponized, anti-nihilistic auditory warfare.

Side A: HWA โ€“ The Beauty of the Raw Mind
HWA operates on a fascinating artistic philosophy: the belief that authentic human beauty only manifests when individuals courageously tend to their own raw emotions, unhealed wounds, and structural emptiness. Heavily influenced by the legendary math-grind velocity of Discordance Axis and Gridlink, the trio expands their sonic palette by weaving in complex harmonic structures reminiscent of technical thrash and progressive metal pioneers like Vektor and Cynic.
The A-side opens with a freshly remixed and remastered version of โ€œSeptember Theaterโ€. The track immediately hits with tight, rapid-fire blast beats and highly compressed, crunchy guitar riffs. While the mix leans dense, the technicality shines through an exceptionally crisp kick drum and rapid, screeching vocal work. This momentum carries directly into โ€œPast Selfโ€, where the band sounds tightly locked into a sharp, narrow groove. The backend of this track expands beautifully, showcasing highly fleshed-out riffing sequences that anchor the vocalist's intense, piercingly high register.
As the side progresses, HWA shifts from traditional grind into varied rhythmic territory. โ€œViolent Disgustโ€ shakes off the compression, introducing a stellar, organic bass presence and an infectious, thrash-infused groove underneath frantic drum rolls. On this specific track, the vocals sound remarkably desperateโ€”bordering on physically windedโ€”giving the performance a deeply human, unvarnished edge.
The band's progressive inclinations take center stage on the latter half of their side. โ€œHollow Faceโ€ initially presents a janky, unpredictable architecture before snapping into a mesmerizing, machine-gun rhythmic stride. โ€œLetter to Jane Doeโ€ elevates the dynamic display with stellar cymbal work and complex drum fills over thick, subterranean basslines. Following the squeaky, unrelenting velocity of โ€œHymn for the Nightโ€ and the steady, punishing drum gallops of โ€œIrreversible Imprintโ€, HWA closes their half with โ€œDecompositionโ€. This standout track breaks their sonic blueprint wide open, utilizing unexpected melodic guitar phrasing before pivoting into a heavy, slow-chugging, and beautifully dynamic outro that ensures the trio never feels one-dimensional.
Side B: NAIITE โ€“ The Anti-Menhera Outbreak
If HWA represents the sensitive, bleeding heart of the Seoul underground, NAIITE is the jagged glass used to cut through modern internet complacency. Taking their name from the Japanese slang for the defensive, self-inflicted wounds left by box cutters, the four-piece prides itself on a fierce, confrontational stance labeled "Anti-Menhera" grindcore. NAIITE utilizes chaotic, blindingly fast arrangements to explicitly attack online subcultures that commercially consume, romanticize, and encourage self-harm or suicide imitation among youth. Their side of the split is a erratic, punishing exercise in pure sonic resistance.
The onslaught begins with โ€œRisukaโ€, a frantic burst of grind where the snare drum mirrors a relentless volley of gunshots. Once the listener breaks past the initial wall of blast beats, the track reveals a surprising, underlying rhythmic pocket highlighted by piercingly high, unhinged vocal shrieks. โ€œCareless Triangleโ€ maintains this frantic pace before dropping into a dense, heavily distorted, and beautifully slow groove that offers a momentary breath of air amidst the madness.
The brief, venomous eruption of โ€œGo Fuck Yourselfโ€ delivers maximum intensity, though it encounters a slightly clunky transition when the blasting abruptly halts to switch tempos. NAIITE quickly corrects course with โ€œPeroxideโ€, a track that trades blistering speed for controlled drum pocketing, clear snare production, and a rare, highly audible bassline that drives a fantastic groove.
The final stretch of the split dives headfirst into experimental chaos. โ€œMenhera Clinicโ€ navigates lightning-fast tempo shifts with impressive agility. In contrast, โ€œA Lizard in Tattersโ€ opens as a messy, fluttering wall of ringing guitar noise before a brilliant mid-song bridge glues the track together, resolving into a pristine, hard-hitting second half. After the incredibly brief, hyper-abrasive flash of โ€œSuicidal Contentsโ€, NAIITE brings the split to a definitive close with โ€œPastelโ€, a track that utilizes alternative guitar tunings and harsh, throat-shredding vocals to forge a hauntingly silent, rhythmic groove.
The HWA / NAIITE split is a masterclass in regional extremity. By pairing HWA's progressive, wound-venting sensitivity with NAIITE's chaotic, anti-nihilist societal critique, the release offers a complete, multi-faceted look at the anxieties plaguing modern youth. It is abrasive, occasionally clunky, and inherently polarizingโ€”exactly what authentic grindcore is supposed to be.

๊น€์น˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ๊ทธ๋ผ์ธ๋“œ์ฝ”์–ด!

๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์–ธ๋”๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ ์Œ์•… ์‹ ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ๋„ ์†๊ผฝํž ๋งŒํผ ๊ฐœ๋…์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋„๋ฐœ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ต์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ์•„ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์˜ ์„ธ๋ จ๋œ ํ™”๋ คํ•จ๊ณผ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋จผ ์ด ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๋ฎค์ง€์…˜๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋ผ์ธ๋“œ์ฝ”์–ด์˜ ๊ด‘ํญํ•œ ํ˜•์‹์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ๊นŠ์€ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ, ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์ ์ฐจ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ ธ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ์Œ์•…์œผ๋กœ ํ’€์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œ HWA์™€ NAIITE์˜ ์Šคํ”Œ๋ฆฟ ๋ฆด๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์›€์ง์ž„์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๋…ผ์Ÿ์ ์ธ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋งค๊น€ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์„œ์šธ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋Š” 3์ธ์กฐ์™€ 4์ธ์กฐ ๋ฐด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ ์ด๋ฒˆ 16ํŠธ๋ž™ ์ปดํ•„๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์™„์„ฑ๋„์™€ ๊ฐ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ ๊ฒƒ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์ธ ์ทจ์•ฝํ•จ์„, ๋ฌด๊ธฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํœ˜๋‘๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ฐ˜ํ—ˆ๋ฌด์ฃผ์˜์  ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ•œ๋‹ค.

A๋ฉด: HWA โ€“ ๋‚ ๊ฒƒ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ง€๋‹Œ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€

HWA๋Š” ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ณต๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ์•„์ง ์น˜์œ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒ์ฒ˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋ฉด์— ์ž๋ฆฌํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ๊ณตํ—ˆํ•จ์„ ์šฉ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•  ๋•Œ ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฏฟ์Œ์ด๋‹ค. Discordance Axis์™€ Gridlink์˜ ์ „์„ค์ ์ธ ๋งค์Šค ๊ทธ๋ผ์ธ๋“œ์ฝ”์–ด ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ์™€ ์†๋„๊ฐ์—์„œ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ์ด ํŠธ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” Vektor์™€ Cynic ๊ฐ™์€ ํ…Œํฌ๋‹ˆ์ปฌ ์Šค๋ž˜์‹œ ๋ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์‹œ๋ธŒ ๋ฉ”ํƒˆ ์„ ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์„ ์—ฐ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ํ™”์„ฑ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ์˜ ์˜์—ญ์„ ๋„“ํ˜€ ๊ฐ„๋‹ค.

A๋ฉด์€ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋ฆฌ๋ฏน์Šค ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ง๋œ โ€œSeptember Theaterโ€๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ๋‹ค. ํƒ€์ดํŠธํ•˜๊ณ  ์‰ด ์ƒˆ ์—†์ด ๋ชฐ์•„์น˜๋Š” ๋ธ”๋ผ์ŠคํŠธ ๋น„ํŠธ์™€ ์••์ถ•๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ณ  ๋ฌต์งํ•œ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋ฆฌํ”„๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฒญ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํƒ€ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ฏน์Šค๋Š” ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋นฝ๋นฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์œ ๋‚œํžˆ ์„ ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ‚ฅ ๋“œ๋Ÿผ๊ณผ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์Ÿ์•„์ง€๋Š” ๋‚ ์นด๋กœ์šด ๋ณด์ปฌ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์—ฐ์ฃผ๋ ฅ์˜ ๋””ํ…Œ์ผ์ด ์‚ด์•„๋‚œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ถ”์ง„๋ ฅ์€ ๊ณง๋ฐ”๋กœ โ€œPast Selfโ€๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐด๋“œ๋Š” ๋‚ ์นด๋กญ๊ณ  ์ข๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์—ฌ์ง„ ๊ทธ๋ฃจ๋ธŒ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ฆฐ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ค€๋‹ค. ๊ณก์˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ฆฌํ”„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์ด ํ•œ์ธต ํ’์„ฑํ•ด์ง€๋ฉฐ, ๋ณด์ปฌ์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ท€๋ฅผ ์ฐŒ๋ฅผ ๋“ฏ ๋†’์€ ์Œ์—ญ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•œ๋‹ค.

ํŠธ๋ž™์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋ ์ˆ˜๋ก HWA๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๊ทธ๋ผ์ธ๋“œ์ฝ”์–ด์˜ ํ‹€์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ์  ์˜์—ญ์„ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•œ๋‹ค. โ€œViolent Disgustโ€์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์••์ถ•๋œ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ์ธต ํ’€๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ์ด ๋šœ๋ ทํ•œ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ํ†ค๊ณผ ์ „์—ผ์„ฑ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์Šค๋ž˜์‹œํ’ ๊ทธ๋ฃจ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ์ •์‹ ์—†์ด ๋ชฐ์•„์น˜๋Š” ๋“œ๋Ÿผ ๋กค ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๋‚œ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ด ๊ณก์˜ ๋ณด์ปฌ์€ ๋†€๋ผ์šธ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ๋งˆ์น˜ ์œก์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ๊ณ„์— ๋‹ค๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ๋งˆ์ € ์ค€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์€ ์—ฐ์ฃผ์— ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ์ƒ์ƒํ•จ๊ณผ ๊พธ๋ฐˆ์—†๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์นœ ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ๋”ํ•œ๋‹ค.

ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉด ๋ฐด๋“œ์˜ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์‹œ๋ธŒํ•œ ์„ฑํ–ฅ์ด ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์— ์„ ๋‹ค. โ€œHollow Faceโ€๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ๋น„ํ‹€๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋กœ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋‚ด ๋งคํ˜น์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ด์‹ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ™˜๋œ๋‹ค. โ€œLetter to Jane Doeโ€๋Š” ๋‘ํ„ฐ์šด ์ง€ํ•˜ ๊นŠ์ˆ™ํ•œ ๊ณณ์˜ ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ๋ผ์ธ ์œ„๋กœ ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ธ ์‹ฌ๋ฒŒ ์—ฐ์ฃผ์™€ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๋“œ๋Ÿผ ํ•„์ธ์„ ๋”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์—ญ๋™์„ฑ์„ ํ•œ์ธต ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. โ€œHymn for the Nightโ€์˜ ์‚๊ฑฑ๊ฑฐ๋ฆด ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋‚ ์นด๋กญ๊ณ  ์‰ด ํ‹ˆ ์—†๋Š” ์†๋„๊ฐ๊ณผ โ€œIrreversible Imprintโ€์˜ ๊พธ์ค€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ฐ€ํ˜นํ•œ ๋“œ๋Ÿผ ์งˆ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ๋’ค, HWA๋Š” โ€œDecompositionโ€์œผ๋กœ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ํŒŒํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณก์€ ๋ฐด๋“œ์˜ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ ๊ณต์‹์„ ๊ณผ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊นจ๋œจ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•˜์ด๋ผ์ดํŠธ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๋ฐ–์˜ ๋ฉœ๋กœ๋”•ํ•œ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ด์ง•์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ๋’ค, ๋ฌต์งํ•˜๊ณ  ๋А๋ฆฐ ์ฒ˜ํ‚น ๋ฆฌํ”„์™€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๋‹ค์ด๋‚ด๋ฏน์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‹๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์•„์›ƒํŠธ๋กœ๋กœ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ํ‹€๋ฉด์„œ ์ด 3์ธ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋‹จ์กฐ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹˜์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•œ๋‹ค.

B๋ฉด: NAIITE โ€“ ์•ˆํ‹ฐ ๋ฉ”ใƒณํ—ค๋ผ์˜ ํญ๋ฐœ

HWA๊ฐ€ ์„œ์šธ ์–ธ๋”๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ์˜ ์„ฌ์„ธํ•˜๊ณ  ํ”ผ ํ˜๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‹ฌ์žฅ์„ ๋Œ€๋ณ€ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, NAIITE๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฐ๊ฐํ•จ์„ ๋ฒ ์–ด ๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํœ˜๋‘๋ฅด๋Š” ๋‚ ์นด๋กœ์šด ์œ ๋ฆฌ ์กฐ๊ฐ๊ณผ๋„ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ์ปคํ„ฐ์นผ๋กœ ์žํ•ดํ•œ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌํ‚ค๋Š” ์ผ๋ณธ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์†์–ด์—์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 4์ธ์กฐ์ธ NAIITE๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ์Œ์•…์„ '์•ˆํ‹ฐ ๋ฉ”ใƒณํ—ค๋ผ(Anti-Menhera) ๊ทธ๋ผ์ธ๋“œ์ฝ”์–ด'๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ€๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„์œผ๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋ˆˆ ๊นœ์งํ•  ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ดˆ๊ณ ์† ํŽธ๊ณก์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ์žํ•ด์™€ ์ž์‚ด์„ ์ƒ์—…์ ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œ๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚ญ๋งŒํ™”ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๋ชจ๋ฐฉ์„ ๋ถ€์ถ”๊ธฐ๋Š” ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ•˜์œ„๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋…ธ๊ณจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ฒฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์Šคํ”Œ๋ฆฟ ํŒŒํŠธ๋Š” ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ์  ์ €ํ•ญ์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๋ถˆ๊ทœ์น™ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€ํ˜นํ•œ ๋Œ์ง„์ด๋‹ค.

๊ณต๊ฒฉ์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” โ€œRisukaโ€๋Š” ์Šค๋„ค์–ด ๋“œ๋Ÿผ์ด ์‰ด ์ƒˆ ์—†์ด ์Ÿ์•„์ง€๋Š” ์ด๊ฒฉ์„ ์—ฐ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ด‘๋ž€์˜ ๊ทธ๋ผ์ธ๋“œ์ฝ”์–ด ํŠธ๋ž™์ด๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ธ”๋ผ์ŠคํŠธ ๋น„ํŠธ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์„ ๋šซ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ฉด, ์˜ˆ์ƒ์™ธ๋กœ ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋ฉฐ ๊ท€๋ฅผ ์ฐŒ๋ฅผ ๋“ฏ ๋†’๊ณ  ํ†ต์ œ ๋ถˆ๋Šฅ์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋ณด์ปฌ ์Šคํฌ๋ฆผ์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•œ๋‹ค. โ€œCareless Triangleโ€ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ด‘์†์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ์ง™๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋””์Šคํ† ์…˜์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ ๋А๋ฆฐ ๊ทธ๋ฃจ๋ธŒ๋กœ ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค. ํ˜ผ๋ˆ ์†์—์„œ ์ž ์‹œ ์ˆจ์„ ๋Œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์ด๋‹ค.

์งง์ง€๋งŒ ๋…๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ โ€œGo Fuck Yourselfโ€๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•จ์„ ๊ทนํ•œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ๋ธ”๋ผ์ŠคํŠธ ๋น„ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ  ํ…œํฌ๋ฅผ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋งค๋„๋Ÿฝ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚œ๋‹ค. NAIITE๋Š” ๊ณง๋ฐ”๋กœ โ€œPeroxideโ€์—์„œ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณก์€ ๋งน๋ ฌํ•œ ์†๋„ ๋Œ€์‹  ์ ˆ์ œ๋œ ๋“œ๋Ÿผ ๊ทธ๋ฃจ๋ธŒ์™€ ์„ ๋ช…ํ•œ ์Šค๋„ค์–ด ํ”„๋กœ๋•์…˜์„ ํƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋“œ๋ฌผ๊ฒŒ ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ์ด ๋˜๋ ทํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ๋ผ์ธ์ด ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฃจ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šคํ”Œ๋ฆฟ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์€ ์‹คํ—˜์ ์ธ ํ˜ผ๋ˆ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ •๋ฉด ๋Œ์ง„ํ•œ๋‹ค. โ€œMenhera Clinicโ€์€ ๋ฒˆ๊ฐœ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๋Š” ํ…œํฌ๋ฅผ ๋†€๋ผ์šธ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ™”ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด โ€œA Lizard in Tattersโ€๋Š” ์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ์–ด์ง€๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋’ค์—‰ํ‚จ ์ฑ„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณก ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋ถ€์— ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์ด ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋ฌถ์–ด ์ฃผ๋ฉด์„œ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ˆํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ์งง๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ โ€œSuicidal Contentsโ€๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ„ ๋’ค, NAIITE๋Š” โ€œPastelโ€๋กœ ์Šคํ”Œ๋ฆฟ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์žฅ์‹ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€์ฒด ํŠœ๋‹์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ๊ธฐํƒ€์™€ ๋ชฉ์ด ์ฐข์–ด์งˆ ๋“ฏํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ๋ณด์ปฌ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•ด ๊ธฐ๋ฌ˜ํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ๊ฐ์ด ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฃจ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ธ๋‹ค.

HWA์™€ NAIITE์˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์Šคํ”Œ๋ฆฟ์€ ์ง€์—ญ ์–ธ๋”๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทน๋‹จ์ ์ธ ์Œ์•…์„ฑ์˜ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋‹ค. HWA์˜ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์‹œ๋ธŒํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ๊ณผ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์Œ์•…์œผ๋กœ ์Ÿ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ์„ฌ์„ธํ•จ์„ NAIITE์˜ ํ˜ผ๋ˆ์— ์ฐฌ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ์™€ ๋ฐ˜ํ—ˆ๋ฌด์ฃผ์˜์ ์ธ ์‚ฌํšŒ ๋น„ํŒ์— ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์ฒญ๋…„ ์„ธ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ดด๋กญํžˆ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ณผ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์„ ๋‹ค๊ฐ๋„๋กœ ์กฐ๋ช…ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ณ , ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋งค๋„๋Ÿฝ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜ธ๋ถˆํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทน๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ ์ด์•ผ๋ง๋กœ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ผ์ธ๋“œ์ฝ”์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋ชจ์Šต์ด๋‹ค.

Rating 7/10

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Hwa

Past Self (Remixed & Remastered)

Hollow Face (Remixed & Remastered)

Decomposition

Naiite

Careless Triangle

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