그럼에도 불구하고 (Sometimes)

Crush wraps this song in a haze of neo-soul textures — warm electric piano, gently shuffled drums, a bass that's felt more than heard — and uses that softness to carry something genuinely difficult: the decision to keep loving someone even when it costs you. The title's Korean phrase translates as "despite everything" or "nevertheless," and the song earns that word through accumulation rather than declaration. His voice has a silky, almost sleepy quality that belies the emotional work happening in the lyrics, a kind of understated resolve that hits harder for not being theatrical. There are moments where the arrangement opens up and lets silence in, which is a songwriting choice that takes courage — trusting the listener to fill the space with their own feeling. Crush emerged from the AOMG label alongside artists like Gray and Simon Dominic, but his sensibility is distinctly quieter and more interior than most of his peers, reaching toward something closer to Frank Ocean's introspective mode than to classic hip-hop-adjacent R&B. This is a song for the morning after a difficult conversation, for sitting with something you haven't resolved but have decided to carry anyway.