TWICE have detailed plans to drop their twelfth mini-album ‘Our Youth’ in early 2023, preceded by an English pre-release single subsequent month.
The announcement was made by way of TWICE’s official social media channels on December 21 at midnight KST. In the publish, a teaser poster containing the discharge home windows for each the only and the complete mini-album is hooked up, with the caption: “First 1/4 of 2023”.
The as-yet-untitled English single might be launch on an undisclosed date subsequent month, whereas the ‘Our Youth’ mini-album will drop two months later. More data, together with particular dates, tracklists and different particulars, might be shared at a later stage.
First, 1/4 of 2023#TWICE #트와이스 pic.twitter.com/5iAUvVTTjN
— TWICE (@JYPETWICE) December 20, 2022
TWICE’s announcement arrived a few month following JYP Entertainment’s earlier affirmation of the woman group’s plans to launch new music subsequent yr. The funding report launched on the time solely detailed imprecise plans to return again as a full group. Following the discharge of ‘Our Youth’, the band’s first official Japanese sub-unit might be debuting. However, it stays unclear if it is going to be shaped by TWICE’s Japanese members (Sana, Momo and Mina), or if it is going to be shaped with different members of the band.
TWICE’s forthcoming return to music will come roughly 4 months because the nine-piece’s final mission, the August EP ‘Between 1&2’. Headlined by title observe ‘Talk That Talk’, the file’s launch marked TWICE’s first and solely home launch of 2022, in addition to their first since all 9 members unanimously renewed their contracts with JYP Entertainment.
In a combined three-star evaluate of the album, NME’s Tanu I. Raj described ‘Between 1&2’ as “a fitting end to an album where TWICE acknowledge how far they have come”. “Between the fierce competition of Sixteen and early years spent doubting their path, TWICE have not had the easiest road to self-discovery,” they wrote.