TOMORROW X TOGETHER Announce Release Date For 8th Mini Album

K-pop icons TOMORROW X TOGETHER have set the release date for their upcoming eighth mini album, 7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns. The follow-up to last summer’s fourth full-length studio album, The Star Chapter: TOGETHER, is slated for release on April 13.

The news was announced via an arty 1:45-long teaser video in Korean. “The concept trailer delivers a visceral portrayal of inner anxiety, weaving the members’ striking visuals with the evocative imagery of thorns and a solitary thorn figure,” read a statement. “It is anchored by a poignant narration of lyrics from ‘Thorn Tree’ by the legendary Korean folk duo Poet and Village Chief, deepening its emotional resonance. This central thorn motif continues through the concept photos, serving as a prelude to the introspective growth and unfiltered artistry that define the quintet’s new chapter.”

The video opens with the image of a bright pink, leafless tree against a white wall as a soft voice says [translation via Google Translate], “Inside me, there are so many of me. There is no rest for you. Inside me are vain wishes. There is no place for you to be comfortable. Inside me, I can’t help it. Me too. Taking away your resting place.”

The black and white images include shots of members YEONJUN, SOOBIN, BEOMGYU, HEUNINGKAI and TAEHYUN tumbling through a white void dressed in all-black as well as the thorn-covered shadow lurking around in the clip titled “When the wind stopped for a moment in the thornbush.” The seemingly unrelated scenes then pile up: a solitary woman eating a meal alone, a shirtless man working out, birds chirping and flying in ominous flocks and various glimpses of sad-looking people interspersed with a stark shot of the tree surrounded by pink smoke, with the spike figure at the center of it all.

TXT’s fourth mini album, 2022’s minisode 2: Thursday’s Child, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and spent 14 weeks on the chart, while their fifth mini-album, The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION, debuted at the top of the chart. Last year’s seventh mini album, The Star Chapter: SANCTUARY, debuted at No. 2 and July’s The Star Chapter: TOGETHER debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard album tally.

More information about the album’s tracklist will be released soon.

Watch the TOMORROW X TOGETHER teaser video below.