BTS: Arirang review – the world’s biggest pop band return with dumb fun and downright weirdness

(Big Hit Music) Ending a hiatus that began in 2022, the septet recapture a distinctiveness that had been threatening to ebb away The general consensus seems to be that as BTS’s commercial stock has gone stratospheric – more than 500m units sold worldwide, including over 104bn streams, making them the bestselling Asian act of all time – the actual music has become more and more irrelevant. Before taking their hiatus in 2022 to fulfil their mandatory military service in South Korea, their sacch...

By Michael Cragg