ILLIT - Almond Chocolate Review
Selective Hearing reviews ILLIT's first Japanese digital single, Almond Chocolate.
Release Date: February 14, 2025
Track Listing
Almond Chocolate
Review
ILLIT's first release of 2025 is their first Japanese digital single, Almond Chocolate. The song is part of the soundtrack for the live-action adaptation of the manga It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love.
Almond Chocolate is a song that flew way under my radar. I didn't know that ILLIT was doing something in Japan until the song appeared in my Apple Music feed.
I have never read the manga or watched the movie whose soundtrack this song is part of, so I can't say if it matches the content of the source material. However, Almond Chocolate fits well within ILLIT's dreamy and sweet girl-pop brand.
Sure, this isn't the most exciting piece of pop music, and Almond Chocolate will appeal most to those who like innocent girl group concepts or want a break from the monotony of dance-oriented pop songs. If you believe that not everything has to be high-energy and clobber you into submission, then this will be for you.
It's refreshing to hear ILLIT perform something with a serene type of feeling. And while this isn't a slow jam in the purest sense, this is about as close as you'll get to one with ILLIT at this point in their careers.