EXO vocalist Chen (Kim Jong Dae) is coming out with a solo album this April.

It’s about time.

“Nosedive,” his collaboration with Dynamic Duo, was my favorite song of 2017.

“Lights Out,” the song he wrote on EXO’s winter album Universe, is a beautiful and moving endcap to a day. And like I wished in that past review, I’m glad to see that we get more of singer/songwriter Chen.

The man knows how to communicate through song.

I’m excited to see how this album shapes up, especially with the title “April, and a Flower” with that promo image. (Check the strategically placed lens flare.)

The moodiness of the image (love all the noise from the ISO) and the poetic treatment of the text in this teaser give me hope that this won’t be a purely saccharine spring ballad release.

But we won’t know for another week.

One thing the k-pop industry does right: sweet anticipation.