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Ah~ I feel like my recent wait for the things that were going to be released ended in a bit of an anticlimax.

Boyband 東方神起 made their comeback with their 주문 -MIROTIC- MV, which you can watch here. I like the MV itself, but the song … well, I don’t hate it, but it’s really not what I was expecting from them. It does have a slightly more mature and sexy edge to it but it could have been so much more impressive.

R&B artist M also made a comeback with the release of his album, M RIZING, yesterday and the MV for 남자를 믿지마, featuring Big Tone. You can see the MV here! M RIZING was a bit of a disappointment for me. M composed a lot of the songs for his previous album, which I was really excited about, but sadly for this album he only composed two of them. He said in an interview that this album was made to “appeal to the masses” – it really does sound like that, and I really wish it didn’t! It isn’t a bad album, it just wasn’t the huge amounts of awesome that I’d been hoping so much for these past months! I’m also not really digging the Brave Brothers right now, who have been composing quite a few popular songs – problem is that all these songs they’ve written all kind of sound the same. Each new song they write sounds almost like a remix or a compliation of their older ones! The songs are definitely catchy, and a few of them I really love, but I think if I hear another Brave Brothers‘ song in the next couple of months, I might just pray for temporary deafness.

I’m not a fan of them, but girlgroup Wonder Girls released their latest song Nobody, which you can watch here. Not as catchy as Tell Me or So Hot!, but it was kinda cute. JYP makes an appearance in this too.

Rockstar 서태지 released the MV T’IKT’AK! I really like some of 서태지‘s stuff, so I was really excited over his comeback in July with his 8th ATOMOS PART MOAI single. T’IKT’AK is a really cool song, and so is the MV, which you can see here.

A couple of days ago female R&B artist 손담비 released her latest mini album, and the MV for the title song, 미쳤어, which you can watch here. I really love this song, it’s catchy and 손담비 is super sexy. The rest of the mini album was a bit of a disappointment for me though, I wasn’t too into the rest of the songs.

Now I’m just hoping that the next thing I’m holding my breath for, which is hiphop group Epik High‘s mini album LOVESCREAM will meet my expectations! It should be out in a couple of days, I’m excited! Epik High are one of my favourite artists.

And for anyone who’s tired of the standard pop/R&B/hiphop, then how about this: about a week ago, KoME posted an interview we had with the dub band I&I DJANGDAN, and since I’d never heard of them before I decided to check them out. Reggae is totally not my thing at all XD;; never has been, probably never will be! But if you do like reggae, or just want to try out something different, you might want to give I&I DJANGDAN a go. You can find some of their videos here, I think these are live performances of the songs from their first EP, Culture Tree.