ATEEZ release Golden Hour: Part.6. Start with these two tracks
ATEEZ’s GOLDEN HOUR : Part.6 is out with five tracks. Start with the pre-release Drip, then the title track UP, and hear what the group kept from BAD.
Mina Park
ATEEZ’s 15th mini album, GOLDEN HOUR : Part.6, is out today at 2 p.m. KST. Checked on Apple Music: five songs, about 16 minutes, in this order: ANEMIA, Drip, UP, FAITH, Hollow Victory. The fastest way in is the two tracks that already have videos. Drip came out October 23. UP, the title track, arrived with the album.
Drip sits on a heavy trap beat with sharp hip work and mostly black styling, broken up by flashes of red. KQ called the video a contrast of fire and ice. The camera moves a lot, cutting around the formation instead of holding still for neat performance shots. The song sounds confident about where the group already is. It is louder about presence than about arriving somewhere new.
UP changes the temperature. Brass and a bigger bass line push past the trap pocket. The video opens the scale: industrial rooms, a large dance crew, San breaking through a wall, the floor shaking, objects lifting. At the press conference, Hongjoong pointed to that wall scene as the clearest picture of what the song is saying. Yeosang takes the dance break in the last chorus. If Drip is the group showing off the height they have, UP is them saying they are not done climbing.
The handoff from BAD is in the credits more than the sound. EDEN, Maddox, Peperoni, and Oliv are back on UP, the same core team that made BAD. Hongjoong and Mingi have lyric credits on every Part.6 track. The short-EP habit is unchanged: five songs, choreography built for music shows, and a title track that can move onto the ZERO TO ALL tour opening in Incheon in January. BAD brought a viral challenge and a third Billboard 200 No. 1. Part.6 keeps that production lane and points the next run upward.
Listen to Drip, then UP. The rest of the EP is short enough to finish once those two make sense.
