K-pop girl group aespa have made a comeback with their new mini-album and its lead single ‘Whiplash’.
The new ‘Whiplash’ visual features the members strutting and posing confidently on a simple white film set, later breaking into the song’s sleek choreography. “Why at last, know I did that / Day 1 know I been bad / Don’t stop still shook / Goin’ too hard, yet Can’t touch that (Can’t touch that),” they chant on the chorus.
‘Whiplash’ also includes the songs ‘Kill It’, ‘Flights, Not Feelings’, ‘Pink Hoodie’, ‘Flowers’ and ‘Just Another Girl’. In an interview with Korea Times, the quartet singled out ‘Flights, Not Feelings’ as their favourite song on the record, with vocalist Winter saying it “feels different from anything we’ve sung as aespa before”.
The six-track record marks aespa’s fifth mini-album, and comes just four months after the girl group released their first studio album ‘Armageddon’ earlier this year. That release notably spawned the hit singles ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Supernova’.
In a four-star review of ‘Armageddon’, NME’s Rhian Daly praised its “supremely confident tracks that more than scratch the itch for the experimental pop aespa do so well”.
Last month, the girl group wrapped up the Asia and Australia leg of their ‘SYNK: Parallel Line’ world tour with a two-night show in Bangkok, Thailand. They will resume the tour in January 2025 with shows across North America and Europe.
Earlier this month, aespa also released their special ‘SYNK: Parallel Line’ EP, which includes the solo tracks that each member debuted during the ongoing tour. They include Karina’s ‘Up’, Giselle’s ‘Dopamine’ as well as ‘Spark’ and ‘Bored!’ by Winter and NingNing respectively.
