On April 4, boy group WINNER made a comeback with a full-album, ‘Everyday’. To commemorate releasing the album, WINNER shares about the process of making this album in an interview.

It’s been 4 years since their last full-album. ‘Everyday’ contains 12 track lists, and delivers how much the members have improved since 4 years ago. WINNER said, “the album consists of our group’s unique color. We kind of consider it as “our baby” and we can’t wait for you guys to hear the songs. We are also curious to see what kind of reaction we would get from the audience.”

Kang Seung-yoon said, “we are nervous because it’s been so long since we released a full-album. We have included songs that we made years ago, so you will probably see the differences between old songs and newer ones. Because the album contains songs from the past, it will give our fans a chance to indulge in reminiscence. To the general public, the album will show that WINNER is capable of doing many different things.”

Kang Seung-yoon continued and said, “we tried to expand our music spectrum with our album. The track list includes various music genres, such hip hop, trap, acoustic, and ballad. Also, we started this project as a gift for our fans, we want nothing more than to complete our promotions with happiness.”

Apparently, WINNER had to pull all-nighters for a week to record the songs.

They said, “we recorded the songs for a week without sleeping to get them confirmed by Yang Hyun-suk. He complimented by saying it would be a fun album since each member of WINNER has a different style of music they pursue. His compliments are very rare, and it made us happy.”

Seung-yoon said, “the genre we have been pursuing as a group was quite different from the original YG hip hop style. Our songs have always been medium tempo, vocal-focused trendy pop genre. This time, our title song is trap, a hip hop genre. It’s a bit different from the original WINNER style, but if we pull it off, we will be able to show you a unique ‘WINNER-only’ hip hop that you have never seen before.”

Song Min-ho added, “many people think that we rest a lot in between promotions. However, we are always thinking about and working on our next albums and songs. So whenever the comeback opportunities present themselves, we have enough ammunition to fire. Since there are lots of other artists YG has to take care of, we are thankful for even being able to release a single album. This time, president Yang Hyun-suk told us himself we should release a full album. It was like finding money in a winter jacket that you haven’t worn in months. We were all extremely happy.”

Since the beginning of the year, YG Entertainment has swept the music industry with BIGBANG and iKon alongside. It seems that they have passed the baton onto WINNER.

WINNER said, “we are glad that iKon was successful with their music promotions. Also, we are pretty sure BIGBANG is still number 1 with ‘Flower Road.'” They continued, “we don’t go on promotions expecting to win anything, but you can’t ignore the trend. We are worried that we might be the ones to break that trend.”

Kang Seung-yoon said, “we see iKon members at recording studios everyday. They are younger than us, so we are mostly proud of their achievements. I think they are proud of themselves as well.”

Finally, WINNER concluded by revealing the reason behind picking April 4 as their album release date. They said, “We received lots of love with ‘Really Really’ on April 4th, last year. Afterwards, number ‘4’ became our lucky number. We hope it will bring great memories for this comeback as well.”

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Translated by Dasol Kim

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