REFLECTION is the sixth mini-album released by South Korean idol-group, Empyrean Moon. The album was released alongside the MV for the title track “Mirror” on March 24th. “Mirror” was described to be a song that confronts the negative feelings that surrounds one’s own reflection, more so focusing on the internal issues that become apparent to someone whenever they see themselves, rather than any physical problems.
The album returns back to Empyrean’s signature concept, drifting away from the sound of their special summer mini-album Salty Kisses. The entire album once again puts a heavy emphasis on their vocals alongside an orchestral feel to the background music and production. "Mirror” was written by Triptych’s Teo ( @triptychexe ), which resulted in a lot of praise from fans due to his ability in managing to seamlessly write a song that stayed true to Empyrean’s concept, while still managed to reinvent their sound keeping them fresh.
“Mirror” managed to hit the top 10 of all the charts at the time of the release, with the general public and fans loving Empyrean’s “refreshing” sound in contrast to the style of music prominent in the fourth generation boy-groups, but still maintaining the sound that the public loves them for. The track broke into the top 3 of several charts after promotions started as well, showing the group’s ever-growing popularity.
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unlike their previous summer comeback, this comeback brought back the same type of success the group had become used to with garnering numerous wins throughout their promotional period!
it was probably due to the large gap between their last comeback and this one
their international fandom grew slighter, and although their korean fanbase is significantly larger than their international one, i-shining knights managed to insert empyrean somehow underneath every viral tweet to try and promote them which got them a lot of attention
although the boys usually do at least one vlive a week to interact with their fans regularly, throughout their promotional period they decided to try and do daily vlives to connect with their fans more!
it was the first time the boys had written songs for an album! deoksu had produced and written some b-sides, but it was an experience for the rest of the members
shining knights loving mirror so much that they tried to trend #teotrumpstaehui on twt (since taehui usually writes for empyrean) but there wasn’t enough international fans so they gave up midway
however, yeonjin also hyped on the teo hype train by grabbing the mic from deoksu mid-speech after their first win to thank him and praise him while fighting off the other members from the mic
the sub-unit tracks had their own respective stages the first day of live promotions to give a chance for the boys to shine in their own light!
when the boys started to promote “first stop” as the b-side in their final week of promotions, they teased and hinted that there was a reason for the song being promoted and for fans not to miss them too much!
yeonjin got back onto his variety show gigs, with him usually being the most popular member on these shows due to his sense of humor!
deoksu finally made it onto the masked singer, and was one round away from winning, but was proud of himself regardless!
chan and eunjae started a v-live series where they hired a chef to teach the two of them how to cook (even if that resulted in them almost causing several fires)
basically, all of empyrean stated that this was the start of many surprises they have in store for their fans in 2021!
