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KISU finds hope in Whale in the Daylight!
The passage of time often reveals the true weight of a musical release, distilling initial noise into enduring artistic substance. Long after the immediate waves of its debut have settled into the vast archive of contemporary Korean pop, Whale in the Daylight! stands as a remarkably singular artifact within KISU’s solo discography. Released on June 25, 2026, as a standalone single spanning precisely three minutes and four seconds, the project arrived under the executive stewa
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Aug 74 min read


Yeonjun’s search for self beyond the idol image
In a time frame of just eight months, the release of TOMORROW X TOGETHER member Yeonjun’s much awaited second mini-album titled NO LABELS: PART 02 was released on Friday, July 10, 2026, at 1 PM KST. The six tracks of the album were released under the record label BIGHIT MUSIC, and it has been eight months since his solo debut album NO LABELS: PART 01 stormed the Billboard 200 chart at #10. While he continues to gain worldwide fame with his main groups' activities, the new min
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Jul 145 min read


Kihyun’s “BORDERLINE” is a defining portrait of an artist choosing his own path
Almost nine years after announcing himself as the lead vocalist of MONSTA X, Kihyun comes back to be the hero of his own tale once again with the seven-track solo album BORDERLINE, released by Starship Entertainment on 7th July, 2026. Following a gap of almost four years after his last solo album, YOUTH, this EP marks a new era in the life of the singer not because of its attempts to reinvent him, but because of what it tells us about his growth as an individual. Now that the
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Jul 126 min read


TRENDZ’s “On My Knees” reclaims the emotional power of pop
The modern state of the pop music scene across the world often becomes the victim of an exhaustive infatuation with brevity and ephemeral beauty, as songs get cut into pieces to suit the short attention spans of algorithmically generated playlists. In the era of catchy phrases and less-than-three-minutes-long minimalist compositions, however, the emergence of the South Korean septet TRENDZ provides a delightful, richly-textured alternative. On My Knees, their sixth single alb
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Jul 115 min read
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