Coffee and Ramblings: Kpop Haul # 2

On April 1st 2019, Chen dropped his first solo album. It had two versions: April and Flower. The track list is as follows:

1. Flower

2. Beautiful Goodbye

3. Sorry not Sorry

4. Love Words

5. I'll Be There

6. Portrait of You

I love all the songs in this album but my absolute favorite, the one that I will put on repeat a lot of the time is Beautiful Goodbye.

This is the cover for the Flower version and what follows are random shots from inside the booklet, a card and a bookmark. I love that they included a bookmark...it is like they knew what I liked.

Oh dear, he looks like a teenager here lol

This is the cover for the Flower version and what follows are random shots from inside the booklet, a card and a bookmark. I love that they included a bookmark...it is like they knew what I liked.

On April 30, 2019 a photo book was released. The concept of the photo book is that EXO members visit Hawaii for a schedule, but the schedule gets cancelled abruptly, providing the boys with a surprise holiday! Photographed entirely in Hawaii in collaboration with the Hawaii Tourism Authority, the book has amazing pictures and you see a great side of the boys.

One of my favorite groups is TVXQ, and U-Know (Yunho) is a member of the duo group. He released his first mini album, called True Colors, on June 13, 2019. There are two versions of the album: True and Color. The one I got was the Color version...The reason I got that one is that I had a senior moment and didn't check to see if there are more than one version for his album or I would have gotten both versions. The Track list is:

1. Follow

2. Blue Jeans

3. Swing (Featuring BOA)

4. Hit Me Up (Featuring 기리보이 )

5. Why

6. Change the World

My favorite from the album is Follow.

My favorite group from the new debuts is Ateez. They debuted at the end of 2018 and at the time I didn't buy their physical albums but I did buy the digital ones. So this year I decided to buy all their physical albums when I bought their latest release.

So this is their first album, called Treasure EP.1: All to Zero. It was released on October 25, 2018. There is only one version of this album. The track list is:

1. Intro: Long Journey

2. Pirate King* Title song

3. Treasure* Title song

4. Twilight

5. Stay

6. My Way

I love all the songs in the album because they sound different and fresh but my absolute favorite is Pirate King.

They have the usual merchandise in the box but they also have a poster and a sheet of stickers which I am holding on too until I can use them in my journal.

You will see this map repeated with different coordinates, they mean something in the concept of all the first three albums, ATINY (the fandom) think it signifies all the places they shot the MVs in. At least that is one hypothesis.

Another thing that they do in their albums is put in cards with the members and their names on them. It helps with the putting the name to the face thing which I am still very bad at where they are concerned. My old eyes are trying really hard but they change so much with each concept it is amazing! Behind each of the pictures there are the credits and the track list with lyrics.

This is Ateez's second album, called Treasure EP. 2: Zero to One. It was released on January 16, 2019 and it too also only has one version. The track list is:

1. HALA HALA
2.Say My Name* Title Song
3. Desire
4. Light
5. Promise
The CDs had an extra track called
6. From

As usual all the songs were amazing but my absolute favorites are HALA HALA and Say My Name.

Besides putting the name to the face these cards are also a calendar.

Their latest release is Treasure EP. 3: One to All. It was released on June 11, 2019 and as you can see there are two versions: Wave and Illusion. The track list is:

1. Utopia

2. Illusion* Title song

3. Crescent

4. Wave* Title song

5. Aurora

6. Dancing Like Butterfly Wings

My favorite from the album is Aurora. The rest of the album is super fun though!