Seventeen stans are well fed as K-pop superstars release album Facing the sun Thursday. To celebrate the nine-track project, Seventeen also released the music video for the album’s lead single, “Hot”. This is the band’s first LP since an ode abandoned in 2019.

In the video, the group navigates a post-apocalyptic desert landscape, wielding baseball bats and dodging everything from bullets to motorcycles. “No night, just day / The sun burned red,” sings the band. “As the world is in monochrome, as if it had become a tone/Deep crushing breaths and an overheated rhythmic vibe/Betting my way on the sun of destiny.”

Earlier this week, the group – consisting of S.Coups, Wonwoo, Mingyu and Vernon from the hip-hop team; Woozi, Jeonghan, Joshua, DK and Seungkwan from the vocal team; and Hoshi, Jun, The8 and the performance team’s Dino – released two teasers for the “Hot” music video which showed the musicians in a desert setting playing with skeletons, driving funky cars and posing in futuristic warehouses.

The second, shorter teaser featured the group showcasing their signature dance moves to the catchy track.

The album was co-written by lead vocalist Woozi and includes tracks such as “Don Quixote”, “March”, Domino and “If You Leave Me”. In April, Seventeen released their first all-English single, “Darl + ing”.

“In every language we sing in, we try to show Seventeen for who we are,” frontman S.Coups said. rolling stone. “And I know that people whose first language is not Korean have to work hard to understand our message. So when we record, we want to try as hard as they do when they listen to our music so that we can share this together.

In 2020, Seventeen released Heng:garæ, Semicolonand a Japanese project 24 hourswhile last year saw the arrival of Your choice and Offensive.