Since Modhaus – the company created by former LOONA artistic director Jaden Jeong – first unveiled the thought for tripleS in 2022, the woman group have been slowly revealing their members like layers of petals on a flower. Moderately than unveil the total group directly, although, the “decentralised” idol group’s 24 new stars – who followers vote into totally different models by way of an app known as Cosmos – have regularly debuted in these sub-sections, like Acid Angel From Asia and LOVElution. Now, eventually, everything of tripleS is in full bloom.
Floral imagery dominates the woman group’s debut album, ‘ASSEMBLE24’, which arrives after a run of acclaimed releases from their sub-units. “That is my wave, it’s a flower that blooms,” Nakyoung and Seoyeon share over the Afrobeats rhythms of ‘White Soul Sneakers’, whereas Hyerin vows to “get by this winter like a dry flower petal” on ‘Chiyu’, a extra downtempo however nonetheless fascinating reduce. Later, on that very same music, Dahyun, Joobin and Nakyoung sing of “the sound of spring coming”. With this album, that new season has totally arrived.
Like flowers anchoring their roots, this primary full-length album can be a declaration of energy. The decided lead single ‘Women By no means Die’ is a promise to maintain going it doesn’t matter what life throws at you. “Gonna go all the way in which, not gonna surrender this time,” the group sing resolutely within the refrain. “We get up even after we fall.” For them, struggles aren’t simply issues to push by both, however experiences and alternatives for enchancment. “These pains and trials make a greater me,” Lynn shares at one level.
If ‘Women By no means Die’ looks like a name to arms for anybody who hears it, ’24’ will get extra particular. The observe finds the members hyping themselves up, Hyerin describing “the stage the place we gathered once more” as “getting hotter and rising”, and Nakyoung precisely characterises the group as “one thing unusual”. Though it could be straightforward for such a contemporary group to method their future meekly and nervously, tripleS convey supreme confidence in themselves, not least when Nien utters the assured line: “Run this city, babe I’m not scared.”
‘Assemble24’ is a wide-ranging but cohesive album in additional than simply its themes. Style-wise, the group races by a spectrum of various sonics, every one moulded completely to suit them and made to really feel their very own. In ’S’, a quick introductory observe, squealing guitars meld with fashionable R&B-pop. ‘Coronary heart Raider’, a candy story of crushing on a good friend that builds braveness because it progresses, is pushed by a liquid storage beat, whereas ‘Midnight Flower’ – essentially the most fast observe of the bunch – bounces on a bubbly pop-rock basis that’s as vibrant because the nocturnal bouquets the members sing of.
For individuals who’ve been listening to tripleS’ journey because the starting, this primary outing with their full line-up has been a very long time coming. ‘Assemble24’, although, proves it was definitely worth the wait – this can be a woman group with the substance to again up the novelty of their idea and ought to be simply the beginning of an excellent blossoming.
Particulars
- Launch date: Might 8, 2024
- Document label: Modhaus
