The group Billlie once again proved their distinctive musicality.
Billlie (Siyoon, Shion, Tsuki, Munsua, Haram, Soohyun, Haruna) released the pre-release single cloud palace ~ false awakening on the 27th, drawing a hot response from global fans.
The title track "cloud palace" not only charted on Melon HOT100 immediately after its release but was also featured on YouTube Music Japan's Seoul to Tokyo, which introduces K-pop and Korean artists that have a big influence in Japan.
Also, using this pre-release single as an opportunity, various previous albums charted on the iTunes K-pop album charts in numerous countries including Australia and Turkey. In particular, in Australia all mini-albums from the first mini album the Billage of perception : chapter one through the fifth mini album appendix: Of All We Have Lost have appeared on the iTunes K-pop album chart, once again attracting explosive attention.
cloud palace ~ false awakening captures Billlie's sincere awakening as they face a lost self on the boundary between dream and reality. In particular, the title track "cloud palace" is the final piece that crowns Billlie's roughly four-year "palace" trilogy, consolidating their original narrative and cementing their image as K-pop's representative storytellers.
Billlie has twisted the conventional grammar of K-pop to build their own musical world (B-side), and this "cloud palace" likewise presented a beautiful yet somehow chilling, strange fairytale sensibility. Billlie follows a popular melodic line but raises the song's immersive tension with unexpected chord progressions.
In addition, Billlie added listening pleasure through diverse musical styles. Singing in multiple languages including Korean, English, Japanese and Spanish, they cross language boundaries while boasting high completeness from the dreamlike mood of "cloud palace (Before moonset mix)", which delicately blends chill house, deep house and acid house, to the exotic and sensual world of "Latin noir" realized in "cloud palace (Before moonrise mix)", a hybrid genre combining mumbaton, new bossa and dembow.
Alongside the pre-release single release, Billlie sequentially released "Before sunset live" and "Before sunrise live" on their official YouTube channel, receiving intense interest from fans. Demonstrating Billlie's diverse musical spectrum through different atmospheres and interpretations, fans reacted enthusiastically, saying "Billlie's sincerity toward music makes them cooler," "the members' harmonies to the live performances are perfect," "music that no one but Billlie could pull off," and "it feels like listening to a completely different song in each video."
Billlie raised anticipation for the upcoming the collective soul and unconscious: chapter two by releasing the pre-release single cloud palace ~ false awakening on the 27th.
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