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. On January 31, 2020, a live album of ''Rendez-vous'' was released.

Background

The main theme of the album is space. In particular about the encounters and connections in the outer space. The album contains a total of six songs, including the title song ''Dear Love'' and its instrumental version, ''Rendez-vous'', ''Docking'', ''Black'' and ''Moonlight''.

Music structure

Rendez-vous album would tell a diverse stories about universe across alternative, rock and synth-pop genre. The title track ''Dear Love'' genre is alternative that harmonizes Im's soft voice and guitar with poetic lyrics.

Release

Cube Entertainment released a spoiler image for Im's first solo album, on September 22. The image reveals a person wearing a space suit raising his finger toward the universe. In particular, the English name of Im Hyun-sik, along with the code number "RD-V1102-3". The release of the record was first announced on September 24, 2019. Starting October 4 to 6, Cube Entertainment released a series of teasers to promote ''Rendez-vous''. The following day, a highlight medley for the record were released. On October 9 and 10, two music video trailer for "Dear Love" was released. First, it contained Im screaming of approaching objects faced in outer space, and the second showed the first moment that Im encounters an unidentified person who is similarly dressed in outer space.

Promotion

Im held his first sold out solo concert ''RENDEZ-VOUS'' at Bluesquare iMarket Hall on November 2 and 3, 2019.

Track listing

Personnel

Personnel adapted from the liner notes of the physical album. *

– all vocals; writer ; producer ; chorus ; Guitar ; brass ; drum ; Computer Programming ; synthesizer * MosPick – producer * Ferdy – guitar * Seon Young-jin – E.P * CUBE Trainee – special chorus * Jukjae – guitar

Charts

Release history

References

{{reflist 2019 EPs Cube Entertainment EPs Korean-language EPs