โApocalypse: Save Us,โ the septetโs sophomore studio album, has arrived.
Dreamcatcher, a K-pop girl group, has released their second studio album, โApocalypse: Save Us,โ along with a stunning music video for the albumโs title tune, โMaison.โ
The new video depicts the girl quintet in two different worlds. The members of the female group roam across a post-apocalyptic wasteland surrounded by collapsed buildings and rubble in the first. Dreamcatcher appears in another realm, in a lovely garden with towering columns.
โPlease someone fight for us,โ they plead on the chorus, โSave my home in the jungle / Save my home in the polar / defend my maison / Please someone fight for us.โ The garden effort is shown to have met the same fate as the Earth underneath them as the video progresses.
โApocalypse: Save Meโ contains 14 new songs, half of which are individual songs performed by each band member. Each solo tune is co-written by the members individually, which is noteworthy. SuA, a dancer and vocalist for Dreamcatcher, mentioned her goal to release an album on which all seven members of the band can contribute in a 2021 interview with NME.
Member Handong was absent from Dreamcatcherโs most recent full-length album, 2020โs โDystopia: The Tree of Language,โ due to her participation in the Chinese idol producing show Youth With You. This is their first full-length project as a group, with โApocalypse: Save Me.โ
The new studio album arrives nine months after Dreamcatcherโs special release โSummer Holiday.โ NMEโs Angela Patricia Suacillo complimented the mini-โvaried, albumโs unorthodox combination of tracks and genresโ and for demonstrating that โthereโs more than enough room for grittier, hard-hitting music in K-pop during the generally upbeat summer seasonโ in a four-star review.
