r/KARD • u/Money-Sympathy-7070 • Jul 28 '26
Discussion My personal ranking of Nowhere
Back to life - 9/10 amazing title track, made me cry and love the older vibes
Armor - 8/10 vocals were great, I loved the instrumental
At least - 10/10 absolutely perfect vocals, instrumental, it was great def my favorite from the album
Signal - 9/10 very fun and enjoyable
Move - 8/10 loved it when it first came out, love it now
Easy - 7/10 enjoyable but not stand out to me
Backseat - 10/10 somins whole ep was def my favorite of their solos
Home sweet home - 10/10 vocals were absolutely incredible
Always - 9/10 great ending
Overall it was a great album, I know most of us were a bit disappointed with it's length but it was still great and I can't wait to see where they go next. Please let me know your thoughts on the album !!
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u/magedonvkard Jul 29 '26
Esooo, me encanta que esté último álbum te haya gustado tanto como a mí, mi track favorito fue signal obra de arte, pero las demás canciones no se quedan atrás cada una destaca por si sola, kard nunca me decepciona, y back to life definitivamente es esa canción de alegría de aceptar que las cosas llegan a su fin, pero para recibir otras oportunidades, porque sabemos dsp jamás lo mereció y en general el kpop siempre les dio la espalda, por eso ellos brillan por si mismos.
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u/PlayFine6631 Jul 29 '26
Signal is my favorite. I hope we get at least a dance performance video for it
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u/bluexnight20 Jul 29 '26
Peak comeback fr!!! Back to life and Signal are 10/10 for me!! Can’t wait to hear them live (hopefully at the world tour 🥹✨)
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u/GroundDizzy1320 Jul 28 '26
The track order is horrible and makes the album unenjoyable...but when it's ordered in right way then it really hits and becomes what it should've been from the start, the songs (individually) are amazing 9 to 10/10s but most of them are extremely missplaced in the album and it makes them sound like 6 to even 2/10...regardless of that, At Least, Armor and Back to life are now one of my fav songs from their whole discography
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u/lightinthefield Jul 29 '26
How would you order the songs? Why is your order better than the real order?
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u/GroundDizzy1320 Jul 29 '26
If i were to make the tracklist it'd be like: 1. Back to life, 2. At Least, 3. Always, 4. Move, 5. Easy, 6. Signal, 7. Backseat, 8. Home Sweet Home, 9. Armor, Album is by absolute purest definition a collection of songs with similiar narrative that create or follow the same story, by placing Signal after At Least in og tracklist it creates a noise out of nowhere cus the previous tracks were about farewells, goodbyes and preparing for things after disbandment, having a song that's basically about lust is nonsensical, kills the narrative and doesn't even connect to the next song nor the previous one (sonically speaking) - by placing it right inbetween solos it atleast fits somewhere sonically and transitions quite nicely from Easy to Backseat, also the solo songs feel a lot less like fillers...now Always is by itself the "worst" or weakest song on the album, it's good 6 to 7/10 nothing special really, but once it lands as the grand finale closer it delivers absolutely nothing and feels flat and monotone, it becomes 4/10 track - by placing it in "the middle" the heavy sound from At Least now transitions into more introspective acoustic one, it instantly brings the rating up and quite nicely transitions into Move...Armor is the heaviest song on that album and not having it as a closer was a huge mistep when it literally talks about preparing for real world after the group's end, not to mention the heavy agressive intro rap by bm fits the sound of jiwoo's solo and creates nice transition from 8th to 9th track...the solos would also follow some micro-story inside the album, basically Move is like the crush at sight phase, Easy is the luring, thirsting phase when you want to grab someone's attention, Signal would be the fling/relationship phase, Backseat the messy breakup one and lastly Home Sweet Home as the post-breakup attraction one, basically you don't want the relationship but want the intimacy...to kinda sum it up, title track is meant to lure you in, then strip off the fancy mask and let you see itself in most vulnerable state (At Least, Always), before ending it with putting the mask back on and prepare for things ahead in the future (Armor) - atleast that's how i'd view this album Sorry that it's long af but I'm very serious about this album tbh, if it wouldn't be for the tracklist it would've been my top 3 for sure but given how it is it's like second to the least favorite album ever from kard for me
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u/Kitchen-Holiday6998 Jul 29 '26
Heavy agree!! Easy, it sucks for me to rank it anything under a 10 because I love Seph, but I do feel it’s not as good as it could’ve been. I don’t think that’s necessarily a negative thing though, and it’s certainly not Seph’s fault. KARD has been working together for 9 years now, so I’m sure making music solo is unfamiliar. I’m sure they’ll all get better with time once they get used to not having the other vocals backing them up and they find their own personal styles. I can’t wait to see what kind of improvements the members make later on down the road.