Okay-pop boy band TOMORROW X TOGETHER revealed the tracklist for his or her upcoming fourth studio album on Tuesday morning (July 1). The eight-track The Star Chapter: TOGETHER is due out on July 21 and can characteristic lead single “Stunning Strangers,” in addition to the songs “Upside Down Kiss,” “Ghost Lady,” “Sunday Driver,” “Dance With You” and “Take My Half.”
The information in regards to the follow-up to 2023’s full-length The Identify Chapter: FREEFALL was accompanied by a three-minute album preview that includes a collection of evocative, blurry photos beneath a English-language voice-over during which one of many members says, “I got here again to life whenever you known as my identify. So now, I’ll name your identify too.” The display then explodes in animated fireworks because the strains of the mid-tempo ballad “Ghost Lady” bubbles up, melding into the craving “Take My Half” and the bouncy, uptempo “Sunday Driver.” The clip additionally previews the hip-hop-inspired “Dance With You” and “Upside Down Kiss,” the dreamy “Tune of the Stars” and emotional “Stunning Strangers.”
Over the weekend, the group additionally dropped a three-and-a-half minute film preview-like idea trailer that opens with information of a meteor bathe taking part in on a cracked cellphone crammed right into a birthday cake working footage of ominous masks sporting “surveillance items” on the hunt for restricted “gatherings past system jurisdiction.”
The scene then turns to birthday hat-wearing members SOOBIN, YEONJUN, BEOMGYU, TAEHYUN, and HUENINGKAI arguing at a celebration because the room is raided by the troops, with every man having a visceral, bodily response to the assault that has them rising elf ears, horns wings, garlands and sporting completely different coloured eyes. They alternately rush to assist one another and tussle within the chaos to flee because the light ballad “Tune of the Stars” performs beneath they usually swap into all-white ensembles to come back to the help of Soobin, who’s caught floating in mid-air. The video ends with the message: “Let’s transfer on to Tomorrow Collectively.”
The album that may also characteristic the tune “Fowl of Night time” concludes the Star Chapter collection and, in response to a launch, “explores the true which means of ‘togetherness,’” with every tune representing a distinct side of the singers’ journey collectively. The entice beat-driven “Stunning Strangers” tells an unconventional love story — targeted on “how ‘I’ develop stronger and extra empowered by means of being with ‘you’”— through beats created by producer “hitman” bang, in addition to Okay-pop hitmaker Sluggish Rabbit.
The quintet’s members had been additionally deeply concerned within the artistic course of, with YEONJUN serving to to jot down lyrics for “Upside Down Kiss” and “Ghost Lady,” BEOMGYU including manufacturing on “Take My Half” and TAEHYUN engaged on the lyrics and composition of “Fowl of Night time.”
TXT will kick off a worldwide headlining tour, ACT : TOMORROW, at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on Aug. 22-23.
Watch the Star Chapter: TOGETHER idea trailer beneath.