STILL DREAMING

Lo and behold, TOMORROW X TOGETHER is no longer just Big Hit Entertainment’s junior boy band, living in the shadows of BTS. On the group’s first Japanese full-length album, *STILL DREAMING*, members Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and Huening Kai rerecorded previously released tracks, a collection of their most ambitious material: from the retro disco of “Blue Hour” from *Minisode1 : BLUE HOUR* to the digitized vinyl pops and handclaps of the jazzy “Drama” from the *Dream Chapter: ETERNITY* EP. That these Korean songs could so effortlessly translate to Japanese speaks to the strength of TXT’s idiosyncratic pop—they exist beyond language. Especially noteworthy are *STILL DREAMING*’s two Japanese originals: the acoustic guitar balladry of “Everlasting Shine,” which fans may recognize as a theme from Season 4 of the anime *Black Clover*, and the production-heavy anthem “Force,” which doubles as the opening theme for the second season of another anime, *World Trigger*. Without any doubt, TXT’s global pervasiveness is nigh—on record, on television, everywhere.