ARTMS (아르테미스) is the new five-member girl group under MODHAUS, which is technically a sub-unit of the girl-group LOONA. The group consists of LOONA members: JinSoul (진솔), HaSeul (하슬), Kim Lip (김립), HeeJin (희진) and Choerry (최리), and I can't say ex-members because officially LOONA hasn't disbanded yet. That also makes ODD EYE CIRCLE a sub-unit of both LOONA and ARTMS.
The group (or sub-unit, or project group) made a pre-debut (or debut, or comeback) on March 29, 2024 with their 1st digital single "Pre1: Birth" and today on May 10, 2024 they released their 4th pre-debut single "Pre4 : Air".
ARTMS's debut full-length album "<Dall>" is scheduled to be released on May 31, 2024 with "Virtual Angel" serving as the album's title track. The group has already pre-released three other singles, "Pre3: Candy Crush" on April 25, 2024, "Pre2: Flower Rhythm" on April 11, 2024 and "Pre1: Birth" on March 29, 2024.
Mini Review
For their fourth single, ARTMS chose a cute, catchy song that has a distinctive atmosphere and carries the spirit of their previous work. Unfortunately this is an especially weak song that fails to make an impact and its short duration, of just two and a half minutes, doesn't help the song at all. There is no intro, no build-up and most noticeably there are no hooks besides the already known one. This is the definition of a filler track and keeping this one for last before their debut doesn't seem like a smart move.
BEAUTYBOX - SHINE ON
Release Info & Mini Bio
BEAUTYBOX (formerly stylized as Beauty Box (뷰티박스)) is a currently four-member girl group under BY-U Entertainment. The group originally debuted with six members on September 23, 2021 with the single album "Beyond of BB". On May 7, 2024 BEAUTYBOX made a comeback with their first special single "Shine On". This single is the follow-up to the group's first (labelled as second for some reason) EP album "B-Step" that was released on June 27, 2022.
Track List
"Shine On"
"Shine On (Inst.)"
Review
"Shine on" marks the group's first release following the departures of Rina, Anh, Sara, and Jerin in 2023 and the addition of new members Chaeeun (Korean) and Via (Indonesian). Regrettably this is another super-low budget release where everything shows and sounds very cheap. The music video is bright and shiny but it feels like somebody recorded it on their smartphone and just uploaded is as is. As for the music production, it feels rather unproduced. Like they recorded the vocals and without adding any filters and effects and added them to the instrumental track without even checking the balance levels. The composition is decent and with a better production it could have been a solid track, but now it is just a demo at best.
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