aespa will reportedly be releasing a new album this September – find out more below.
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Late last month (June 27), aespa released ‘Dirty Work’, their first single since October last year. Now, it has seemingly been reported that the SM Entertainment group are on track to release a follow-up album in September.
Per Naver, Maeil Kyungjae Star Today claimed yesterday (July 14) that the group are working on a new album, and will be filming a new music video in the coming weeks. In response, SM Entertainment has reportedly confirmed the group’s comeback timeline, telling Dispatch: “aespa is preparing an album with the goal of making a comeback in September.”
Neither aespa nor SM Entertainment have publicly confirmed a September release.
Their latest single ‘Dirty Work’ is their first material since releasing the mini-album ‘Whiplash’ in late October. Besides the title track, that EP also included the songs ‘Kill It’, ‘Flights, Not Feelings’, ‘Pink Hoodie’, ‘Flowers’ and ‘Just Another Girl’.
In December, aespa’s ‘Supernova’ was crowned NME‘s top K-pop song of the year: “Although aespa have had a solid run throughout their career, ‘Supernova’ so accurately foretells the unbelievable creative and commercial success this year that it may well have been written in the stars. Thrilling and bold, ‘Supernova’ is a three-minute trip into a futuristic cyberpunk utopia, leaving you wanting more the second it’s over.”
The track was also deemed NME‘s ninth best song of 2024: “Bursting with a bouncy electro beat and a stellar hook, ‘Supernova’ affirms the girl group’s ability to thrive in uncharted territory.”
In a four-star review of aespa’s ‘Armageddon’, NME‘s Rhian Daly wrote: “Over the last four years, aespa’s release history has been a little checkered, with the group often sharing a record that knocks your socks off and then, on the next, losing that quality again. Happily, much of ‘Armageddon’ falls into the former camp and reinforces what we already knew – that when aespa are allowed to run free in the sounds and sonics they’ve made their trademark, they’re nothing short of exquisite.”
