MONSTA X are again in full drive.
The Starship Leisure group have returned with their first launch as a full six-member group for the primary time in a number of years. The discharge, which arrived on Monday (August 18), comes within the type of the pre-release single ‘Do What I Need’.
The dance-y single and its accompanying music video are the primary of the group’s upcoming EP, ‘The X’. ‘Do What I Need’ options sharp synths and a thumping bass line, because the group highlight the most effective of their Okay-pop sensibilities a decade into their profession.
Take a look at MONSTA X’s ‘Do What I Need’ beneath.
The upcoming ‘The X’ EP will launch on September 1, and can embrace the tracks ‘N The Entrance’, ‘Savior’, ‘Tuscan Leather-based’, ‘Catch Me Now’ and ‘Fireplace & Ice’. The EP can even mark the group’s first since 2023’s ‘Purpose’.
The X additionally options the tracks “N the Entrance,” “Savior,” “Tuscan Leather-based,” “Catch Me Now” and “Fireplace & Ice.” The EP is the band’s first since Purpose in 2023.
Since 2021, 5 of the group’s six members have been taking flip enlisting into the South Korean army for his or her obligatory service. Shownu was the primary to enlist in 2021, adopted by members Minhyuk, Joohoney, Kihyun and Hyungwon. Hyungwon is the most recent MONSTA X member to finish his service, being discharged again in Might.
The group’s youngest member I.M will enlist this yr, although a confirmed date has but to be introduced. Between 2021 and now, MONSTA X have remained lively, releasing music with members who weren’t serving within the army. The group launched a number of EPs with out Shownu whereas he was serving within the army.
Within the meantime, MONSTA X have just lately performed their first string of dwell reveals as a full unit in 4 years. The group most just lately launched a digital album of re-recorded songs in Might titled ‘NOW Undertaking Vol. 1’.
Their final full-length album was 2021’s English launch ‘The Dreaming’, which scored a four-star assessment: “MONSTA X might have quite a few “trophies to indicate and tales to inform” from their previous six years, however nothing is extra telling than the expansion they’ve continued to realize since then. Being the Okay-pop chameleons they’re, MONSTA X proceed to refine and redefine themselves with each fashion and style on every new launch.”
