Dreamnote 1st Single Dreamlike - Single Review

A new group has arrived to join the Marzipan Wonderland review club! This group is the wonderful Dreamnote who a K-Pop group debuted in 2018 and this post will look at their debut single Dreamlike. I quite enjoy this release so I thought it was a perfect one to share. And also because this single has a beautiful design and concept.

Dreamlike is the debut single from Dreamnote and was released in November 2018. It only comes in one version which is usual for smaller nugu groups like this and I love single version releases. I brought my copy from an authorised seller on ebay so that the sale would count towards the chart. I don't think I ever posted a haul for this as it was during 2020 when I got it and we all know what 2020 was like. Anyway the Dreamlike single comes with the following contents:

• CD - 6 track single
• 72 page photobook
• 2 random photocards (9 in the set).

As I mentioned earlier, I love the aesthetic and design of this single. I'm a bit fan of anything pastel and gradient pastel tones have been something I've been into in recent years. Korean and Japanese releases with this colour scheme are always ones I'm drawn to. Another factor I adore about this release is the group photo on the cover! Can we normalise group photos on albums again? Like I'm over this trend of plain colour or logo front covers. Albums are expensive enough so give me a nice photo to display when I keep the album out. Everyone thinks plain covers are so artsy but I think it's just a cost cutting method sometimes. I enjoy originality and researching interesting album covers so it's always something I look for. With Dreamlike, you get a lovely photo of the group members on the front and a quirky photo on the back cover.

The interior of the single is just as beautiful as the exterior with the pastel design continuing. The photobook is placed on the right side and the CD is held in place on the left. Points for a stylish CD design which features a key design. Their 2nd Single Dream:us has the same design set in the colour scheme of that release. I like this attention to detail and if I could mount CD's safely on a wall for display, I would definitely choose this one!

TWICE Haul!

Received a rather exciting package this week full of K-Pop goodies! Finally caved in and brought a photo album for my photocards. I got bored of them just sitting in a box so I picked up one off Aliexpress. Whilst I was purchasing it, I decided to grab a some other items from the seller and they are all TWICE themed! Here's a quick look at all the items!

The main part of this order was the photo album and I went with the standard sized album which holds 240 cards. It's designed for the normal Korean sized photo cards and only a few of Japanese ones fitted. So I shall have to get a bigger album for all my Japanese cards which is mostly Afterschool as I have heaps of those. When I put my photocards into the album, I left gaps so I could see the back artwork of the cards. It looks lovely and looks great when I have a few cards from a set! I'm not a photocard collector and I've manage to acquire quite a few over the years. Here are some photos of some random pages in my album with the Dreamnote and Momoland pages being my favourites.

Japanese Crayon Pop photocards

Back artwork of Nature & Dreamnote photocards

Dreamnote photocards from Dream:like & Dream:us

i.o.i & Nature photocards

K-Pop Haul - TWICE, BLACKPINK, MOMOLAND & DreamNote

Rounded up all my recent K-Pop purchases for a haul post! I brought these gems over the course of the last few months and thought I had a good amount to share on the blog. All of these CD's were brought from JBHIFI apart from DreamNote which I got from eBay. Here are all the beauties that I added to my collection!

First up is TWICE's 9th Mini Album 'More & More' in the B Version. Both this and the MOMOLAND album were special order items from JBHIFI, so the version you get is entirely random. I'm always happy with TWICE releases though as they have stunning photobooks and a wealth of photocards! The for the CD, I got Sana's which is gorgeous and I've included a photo of all the photocards I got. Can't believe this release had 100 photocards you could get! I can't imagine the pain collectors have to go through to get their faves.

Now onto DreamNote's 2nd Single 'Dream:us' which I brought from Korea on eBay. I'd been looking at getting this single for a while as I love the aesthetics and concept of the single design. I already had DreamNote's first single 'Dreamlike' which is another beautifully designed single. Plus I really like the songs on this single and look at how many photocards you get! Seems there are 22 to collect for this single and you get 4 each time, so it wouldn't take too long to collect them if there's a few fans around. I'm not sure if DreamNote is popular or not, I think they are cute and like buying their releases to support them.

Back to the JBHIFI purchases with MOMOLAND's special album 'Starry Night'. It seems like forever since I brought a new MOMOLAND release. It's weird to think I used to collect them all the time and then just stopped. I think once Daisy left and the group lost momentum, I kinda lost interest in getting their releases before others. Starry Night is a nice release and has some lovely photos of the girls. And it's nice to see a different shaped MOMOLAND Korean release for once after those giant albums we had for a while. I got a Nancy photocard which is great as I don't have too many of hers but I would've loved to have gotten Ahin's as I usually got hers.

Got two more BLACKPINK items for the collection! Amazingly I have quite a few releases from this group which is mainly because it's the only girl group JBHIFI stocks on a regular basis. I pre-ordered the 'How You Like That' single and you get quite a few posters with this release! This single is huge and is by far the tallest K-Pop release I own. The photobook is quite nice but not my favourite from the group. The other BLACKPINK release I got is the standard version of their first album 'The Album'. I did originally want to get one of the other versions when they first announced them but each album was $99 at the store. So I decided to pass as you can get them way cheaper online and it would've an expensive exercise to collect all the versions. Lucky for me, a standard CD only version was released shortly after and I even got it during the 20% music sale so it was even cheaper!

Seems my photocard box is getting quite full! It's pretty much reached the top after this haul. I just use this mirror jewellery box to store any photocards that will fit. I have more around the place that are too large and I usually keep those with their corresponding releases. I'm not planning on buying anymore Asian pop CD's in the next few months so at least it won't over flow soon.