The 1st Mini Album STILL : I, ASC2NT step into a new phase — not with erasure of what came before, but with something rarer: proof of continuity. The album’s thesis is elegantly simple. Through the shifting of time and the turning of seasons, they exist still (여전히) as I (나). Identity undimmed. Presence unbroken.
“STILL : I” serves as the second chapter of ASC2NT’s ongoing series titled 四季 — the Chinese and Korean character for “Four Seasons.” It is a project conceived as a long-form artistic statement: each installment marking a distinct emotional and artistic season in the group’s evolution.
The first chapter was heralded by the digital single “Replay,” which set an expectant, kinetic tone. “STILL : I” inherits that energy and deepens it. Just as nature requires dormancy to return to bloom, ASC2NT frames their creative cycle as something organic: growth, peak, release, and a renewed emergence that carries the memory of everything that came before.
The album’s centerpiece and title track, ‘Still Rose’ is ASC2NT’s most direct statement of intent. A wounded heart can stop us in our tracks — but the will to bloom again, even through that pain, is what ultimately brings us back to life. The song carries a firm resolve: no matter how many times love is battered and broken by hardship, its essence will not be surrendered. Like a rose that holds its fragrance across every season, ‘Still Rose’ is a declaration of love’s endurance and the quiet pride of a self that refuses to be erased.
Listen to “STILL : I”