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Fever's End

Fever's End

Fever's End (Korean: 열꽃) is the first studio album by South Korean singer Tablo. It was released on October 21, 2011, by YG Entertainment. This is Tablo's first solo album outside of Epik High, and features contributions from artists such as Lee So-ra, Naul, and Bong Tae-gyu. Tablo, the leader of the hip hop group Epik High, broke his hiatus caused by the members' military enlistment and the academic forgery controversy to release the album after 1 year and 8 months. The album contains many autobiographical stories of Tablo during and after the academic forgery controversy, making it an emotionally rich hip-hop and rap album. The compositions lean toward a somewhat minimalist and calm atmosphere, with Tablo focusing heavily on the melodies and lyrics.

The album generally received decent to positive reviews from both the public and critics, who particularly praised Tablo's lyric-writing ability and rich emotional expression, though Part 2 received a string of negative feedback.

On October 14, 2011, "" was pre-released as the first single. The album was released in two parts of 5 songs each on October 21 and November 1, with the physical album consisting of 1 CD containing a total of 10 tracks. The title tracks "Bad" and "Tomorrow" reached number 1 on South Korea's major online music charts, and ranked high on the iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap chart, the Billboard charts K-Pop chart, and World Albums chart. However, it did not achieve any remarkable physical album sales or music award wins.