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BILLBOARD Names #SHINee’s "Atmos" on of The Best K-pop Album of 2026 — “SHINee Still Sounds Like No One Else & Refuses to Deliver Just One Tone or Color.” 📰: SHINee’s sixth mini album arrived in June on the group’s 18th anniversary with a house-driven title track kicking things off, sounding like another classic single for the long-running group. The disco-lacquered “Hours” delivers a similar uplift, followed by the surging synth-pop of “Possibility” that never loses a sense of hope thanks in large part to the members’ impactful falsetto runs. But if the first half of Atmos is all about carrying the light and embodying its title, the last three tracks offer darker shades. “Anti Believer” opens on a hard electro pulse with a near-drone chant on the chorus (“Who made me an anti believer? Hate that I’m an anti believer”) even as the harmonies stay precisely layered. “Still Raining” and “Thousand Miles Away” lean further into the dark without ever letting go of the thread of hope, all proving how nearly two decades (and a generation of trends) later, SHINee still sounds like no one else, and refuses to deliver just one tone or color. – J.B. 🔗billboard.com/lists/best-kpo…