The Rose Is Lighting the Approach With Their ‘Daybreak to Nightfall’ Tour

Korean indie rock band The Rose is lighting up the charts and the stage with their “Daybreak to Nightfall” world tour.

It’s the morning after the group’s current live performance in Miami, and the band is on the bus and en path to Texas for the subsequent three performances. “Daybreak to Nightfall” has taken them to cities all through the U.S. and Canada since early October, with performances scheduled via mid-November. 

“We at all times seek for good meals, after which a superb sleep,” says the four-member band of their down time between exhibits. 

The group kicked off the tour shortly after the discharge of their second full album, “Twin,” on Sept. 22. 

Whereas Ok-pop idols proceed to draw worldwide media (and style offers), The Rose is bringing consideration to a much less saturated style: Korean indie rock. The band has amassed a powerful core fandom, collectively often known as “Black Roses,” since they fashioned in 2017. They went on hiatus in 2019 as members accomplished their necessary navy service and returned in 2022 with their first full-length album “Heal,” launched on their very own label, Windfall, in partnership with Clear Arts. 

“Future,” says Dojoon when requested how they got here collectively. (Extra particularly, Dojoon recruited lead vocalist Woosung into the group, and met the opposite two members, drummer Hajoon and bassist Jaehyeong, via the busking scene in Korea.) “It was very pure, we had been actually pals earlier than a band,” he provides. “In order that’s why we actually really feel we’ve a powerful bond between ourselves earlier than even doing a music profession collectively. We’re very human to one another.”

Whereas “Heal” marked their return from hiatus, “Twin” marked their emergence as a gaggle with endurance. The album, which options songs in English and Korean, debuted at quantity 87 on Billboard’s prime 200 checklist, and the number-one spot on Billboard’s Rising Artists chart.

“We received actually healed by writing ‘Heal,’ and since we received healed I believe we had extra vitality to find and write extra new sounds,” says Dojoon. “With this new album ‘Twin,’ since we’ve quite a lot of totally different genres and sounds that we use, there’s extra variety when it comes to how [fans] understand our music, and I believe they take pleasure in it,” he provides. “The best way they arrive as much as us and say how significant the music was to them, it means quite a bit and we really feel actually comfortable listening to these tales.”  

The band launched their “Daybreak” EP in 2018, and observe that whereas “Twin” was initially conceived as a counterpart, they naturally ended up creating an album that mirrored gentle and darkish feelings. “We had been aiming for nightfall extra initially after we had been penning this album,” says Dojoon. “But it surely occurred naturally to have the daybreak aspect as properly.”

“‘Twin’ is about balancing the duality of life, and we consider {that a} balanced life is the happiest life,” provides Woosung. 

At a current efficiency at Madison Sq. Backyard’s extra intimate theater venue, followers donned merch and floral equipment, together with the band’s official lightstick, a color-changing scepter topped by a black rose. For 2 songs the band referred to as for the colour pink (to accompany “Purple” from their first EP), after which later inexperienced (for “Bitter,” from their final album “Heal”), making a uniform gentle expertise. 

The band notes that their favourite tune to carry out dwell on their present tour has been “Surprise,” a lighthearted name for unity via the collective expertise of music and dance. The video for the tune options the band enjoying in a area, surrounded by a circle of followers waving flags from around the globe. “Surprise” additionally speaks to how the model approaches its relationship with its followers: with out borders. 

“We don’t wish to be extra particular than Black Roses. We’re not somebody to look as much as, we’re simply all regular people,” says Woosung, who notably featured on Agust D, aka Suga of BTS’ solo album earlier this 12 months. “We consider music is what makes this relationship actually particular, and music is the one that’s particular and adjustments lives,” he provides. “We perceive that we are going to make errors. We may have flaws — however the music gained’t. And that’s why music is so particular; that’s what we at all times speak about. And I believe Black Roses actually do perceive that we’re no totally different than what they’re going via.”

With the ultimate performances of this leg of their tour on the horizon, the band is concentrated on a definitive objective: “Simply staying wholesome,” says Woosung.

“Each time the inspiration comes we at all times report small bits and items,” provides Dojoon, requested about whether or not new music was additionally within the combine. “However apart from that, we’re actually specializing in the tour currently. Like Sammy [Woosung] stated, we’re preserving good energies.”

Past that, The Rose is continuous to gentle up stadiums, with the Black Roses eagerly alongside for the experience.