'Semicolon' review: Seventeen offers some comfort pop in troubling times

Seventeen take the orthographic challenge of bridging their 2020 with a third EP but not a full-blown fourth studio album.

Semicolon

Seventeen

Pledis Entertainment

Is it a 'Homerun' for Seventeen?

With special album Semicolon, Seventeen offer some comfort pop.

Punctuation can be difficult, as is putting together a great album. Semicolons are notorious little bumps in the road of run-on sentences. Do they join or do they separate?

K-pop's "self-producing idols" Seventeen take the orthographic challenge of bridging their 2020 with a third extended play but not a full-blown fourth studio album.

The six-track record's strategy is to offer easily palatable fare for this difficult period and what better way than to burrow in nostalgia?

First single Home;run is an upbeat poppyfied lindy hop that gets the energy up in the room, followed by a slow burn trap bass line with Doremi; Hey Buddy has a playful '80s instrumentation vibe that pairs well with the easy listening aura of Ah!Love!.

Light A Flame has the whole orchestra pitch in with a Latin-flavoured tune while All My Love catches a whiff of one of those '90s boyband hooks.

Semicolon sums up the entire year perfectly: a little entertainment, a little distraction and, as the hours pass, a little forgettable. – Review by Cristina Jaleru/AP