Album Review: Ne-Hi Bring “Offers” For A Good Time
Ne-Hi’s Offers is a simple album in its joy, which is why it comes off as a success. It is “easy-listening” with enough vibrant chords progressions to not fall into the “boredom” staple that the term can garner. At times, when you are effortless in sound, people presume you are not fun, but Ne-Hi aims to be joyous.
Offers‘ sunnier melodies and quick arrangements come off like light-rays zooming through you. There is a feeling of simple bliss that course through songs “Prove” and “Sisters”. Their fast-paced strums give resonance to punk-rock influences, but they seem too wavy to go “full-on” anarchic. Instead, their chords feel like growing waves, you are trying to surf through lyrics that aim for the quietness of self-destruction. Although many presume self-destruction is a loud, combustible event, many times, it is a silent, slow spiral downward. In songs such as, “Drag”, “Everyone Warned You”, and “Out Of Reach”, Ne-Hi really delves into their lyrics on pressing auto-destruction on yourself and your relationships. Within the first tracks of Offers, you get the sense that you are on a roller-coaster on a sunny day that is scaling up-wards to perform its emotional drop, which you need to undergo, in order to land on the final, advisory song, “Stay Young”. Thus, Ne-Hi brilliantly knows how to sentimentally build an album, which is promising for the longevity of their career. Sometimes, you gain the most affect by being intelligent in how you place your effects.
By far, “Stay Young”, Offers final song, gains its weight by having 14 others tracks that made you feel like you emotionally earned the right to stay young at heart. Through ups and downs, Jason Balla places his vocals as a partner to the essence of feeling. In “Don’t Wanna Know You” and “Buried On The Moon”, he vocally matches the derangement of his situations by deepening his voice with the torture and tension you can feel at being an outcast. With their guitars being strained rather than strummed, it is hard to picture the “waviness” of this album that I previously described, yet Ne-Hi knows how arrange their tracks like they swirling vortexes you can swim in. That mired fluidity makes you listen to the counsel, warning, and stories that Ne-Hi’s Offers has to give for you to feel happy again. For More Information On Ne-Hi Click Here.
