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\n\tFor AND2BLE, though, the trip backward is also a way forward. The five members have already lived through one version of themselves: Zhang Hao, Ricky, Kim Gyuvin and Han Yujin debuted in ZEROBASEONE<\/a> after joining the survival show Boys Planet, while Yoo Seungeon, who finished 16th on the show, went on to debut in EVNNE<\/a>. When ZEROBASEONE\u2019s project contract concluded, the four YH Entertainment members left the group; Seungeon likewise departed EVNNE. All five have now regrouped under YH as AND2BLE.<\/p>\n \n\tTheir debut, Sequence 01: Curiosity, is a five-track, roughly 14-minute exercise that recreates the style of K-pop\u2019s past. It remembers a time when a K-pop boy group could be expected to sound expensive, vocally athletic, and indulgently overdramatic without neo-futuristic theater. Plus, AND2BLE are flexing their historical know-how, investing heavily in the voice.<\/p>\n \n\tSeungeon brings clarity and high-register power; Hao supplies a steadier, warmer counterweight. Ricky\u2019s softer, R&B-leaning delivery changes the texture of a song, while Gyuvin and Yujin fill out the middle with smoother, more understated tones. The pleasure is in the handoff.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTAEHWAN KIM<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cCurious,\u201d the title track, makes that nostalgia instantly legible. Its synth-pop and future-house architecture is all propulsion: a thick bass foundation, hard-edged EDM percussion, and an anthemic hook that\u2019s designed for music show stages anchored by the rallying of Seungeon and Hao\u2019s vocal ping-ponging. It is, in other words, unabashedly K-pop in the old sense. The track is also a reclamation of the members\u2019 careers. \u201cCurious\u201d (co-writing participation by Hao and Ricky) confronts the instability of a new beginning rather than retreating from it (\u201cStart anew, with no limits\u201d). Still, the members are hardly new to being watched. They have already passed through the strange acceleration of survival-show K-pop, already inhabited identities that belonged to other groups, already acquired audiences who\u2019ve stayed with built-in barometers of expectations.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAura\u201d is where the rebirth process promised in \u201cCurious\u201d becomes crystalline. It is less interested in the title track\u2019s muscularity, opening instead into a gauzier pop-R&B landscape of synths and hushed vocals. The song\u2019s central conceit\u2014an attraction born of ineffable personal magnetism\u2014is buoyed by a coyness poignant enough to create negative space. The vocal texture itself is part of the flirtation: \u201cI\u2019ll show you piece by piece, everything \/ You\u2019ve never seen a brand new era \/ All I\u2019ve got, aura \/ I can make it alright for ya.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cSugar Rush\u201d is brighter, boyish, and immediately digestible, built around an addictive bubblegum groove. It is the record\u2019s most pleasurable song, allowing the boys to flex their dexterity. Where \u201cCurious\u201d foregrounds ambition and \u201cAura\u201d cultivates mystique, \u201cSugar Rush\u201d is simply interested in momentum. Its attraction is physical rather than philosophical: the rush of wanting something and not particularly caring whether you should.<\/p>\n \n\tA debut this concerned with re-fortifying identity could easily become portentous, every song straining to explain what AND2BLE means. \u201cSugar Rush\u201d refuses the assignment. It is candy rather than manifesto. And because the production leans into the sleek dance-pop vocabulary associated with the groups these members came from, it also functions as a reminder that reinvention does not require total repudiation. Sometimes the new identity begins with admitting what already works.<\/p>\n \n\tThen comes \u201cBed,\u201d the album\u2019s strongest argument for its vocal architecture. The track, a metaphorical frame for their dreams, begins with restraint from Zhang Hao before expanding into pop-R&B, moving into its chorus with a tenderness apt for boys who have been through the psychological warfare trenches of reality television (\u201cFrame to contain your dreams \/ Baby you can take my hand\u201d).<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cHappy &\u201d closes the album by changing the emotional register again. Its alternative-pop foundation is warmer and more communal, with an uncomplicated singalong quality. Hao and Gyuvin\u2019s songwriting contributions stand out, as the song\u2019s ethos is ultimately about the meaning of arriving somewhere together.<\/p>\n \n\tThat makes the \u201csequencing\u201d almost mischievously neat. \u201cCurious\u201d asks what happens when you step into something new. \u201cAura\u201d asks what makes you compelling once you\u2019re there. \u201cSugar Rush\u201d gives in to the pleasure of it. \u201cBed\u201d strips away some of the spectacle. And \u201cHappy &\u201d turns outward, toward the people who make the new beginning worthwhile.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTAEHWAN KIM<\/p>\n \n\tThe album\u2019s treatise, then, isn\u2019t nostalgia. It is independence. In an era when K-pop has become increasingly adept at abstraction\u2014concepts, lore, visual worlds, genre hybrids, euphemisms\u2014there is something almost radical about returning to the voice and narrative storytelling as scripture.<\/p>\n \n\tAND2BLE\u2019s own participation in the songwriting reinforces that impulse. Hao and Ricky\u2019s writing contributions to \u201cCurious,\u201d Ricky\u2019s to \u201cAura,\u201d and Hao and Gyuvin\u2019s to \u201cHappy &\u201d don\u2019t transform the album into an auteur statement; most of the production remains collaborative and outsourced, as is standard for idol pop.<\/p>\n \n\tBut the credits puncture the idea that these members are simply performers executing songs handed to them, or that novelty means sounding unprecedented. Sequence 01: Curiosity makes a case for independence through inheritance. AND2BLE seem less interested in escaping K-pop\u2019s history than in selecting a particular part of it and deciding that it belongs to them.<\/p>\n \n\tThe result is not a radical debut. There are moments when the record\u2019s affection for third-generation conventions borders on reverence, and its brevity means that several ideas disappear just as they begin to acquire definition. But the album\u2019s compactness is also its strength. Sequence 01 doesn\u2019t pretend that AND2BLE have already solved the question of who they are, and it doesn\u2019t have to be, as its title suggests. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge, there\u2019s more to come.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTAEHWAN KIM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a saying: Everything old is new again. Trot, a traditional Korean pop genre, is en vogue. 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