Korean girl group CLC bring attitude and edge to their beat-forward K-pop anthems, which lean more on fun dance energy than sweet balladry. The second all-girl outfit for Cube Entertainment, the seven-piece CLC debuted in early 2015 with First Love, issuing a blitz of EPs into the end of the decade that kept them planted in the Korean Top 20 until their 2017 U.S. breakthrough, Crystyle, expanded their international audience. In 2019, they hit a chart peak in Korea and the U.S. with their eighth Korean-language effort, No. 1.
Originally a quintet that served a stint as backup ...