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Originally posted by joshsquat
Damn, tell us how you really feel about CRUSH.
I don't think it's the best album ever released or completely worth the wait but with songs like Gotta Be You, Good To You, Come Back Home, CL's Solo, it deserves the praise it is getting.
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As long as we're talking about this I'll throw my two cents in. I think I agree, it's not a 10/10 album, and only 7 distinct new group tracks isn't exactly four-year-wait-material, but the album is still excellent and couldn't be further above their peers. We have high standards for them because their back catalog is kind of stunning, but on its own, Crush is a feat.
I let one of my friends who's completely clueless about k-pop listen to it and she was shocked by the overall quality, and said that it was, and I quote, "completely uncommon" for such a tight collection of well-made songs to be on one cohesive release. Not that one person is the be-all-end-all of critical interpretation but there you go.
EDIT: Overall Crush > To Anyone. I thought this was obvious. Their first album only has 7 group tracks on it anyway and Follow Me, Love is Pain, and I'm Busy are 3 of them. While I actually like at least the latter two, there is no Follow Me/Love is Pain/I'm Busy on Crush. Every song is quality. You could at least say the albums are evenly matched. I don't think Crush is as good as either of their minis but that's comparing oranges and apples. The more I listen to it the more I think it's not really in the shadow of their back catalog.