As breakup songs go, this isn’t exactly typical. It’s the sound of realization, that faint, touching moment when the lights are out and you wish you’d said more or less. K-garoo dubs it the “Remorse kick,” that automatic jolt beneath your cover when, under its influence, you review what you can’t undo.
“Remorse Kick” weds Korean indie tenderness with modern English pop storytelling, forming an emotive tide that rolls in and out tautly like scenes from a movie. The dueling vocalists of the duo, one gentle, one reflecting the duality of memory and regret of love and loss. Every lyric sounds as if it’s been written in the shadow of something real, something lived.
“Remorse Kick” doesn’t plead for ears, it wins them over, with every heartbeat and half-whispered harmony. It’s a song for anybody who has ever stared at the ceiling in the 2 a.m. darkness and wondered if they were the one who let go too soon.
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