Stray Kids Try a Groovier Sound on 10th EP 'THIS & THAT'
The 10th EP 'This & That' swaps their signature chaos for something groovy — Bang Chan calls it a whole new color.
no bc STAY has braced for eardrum obliteration for NINE YEARS and Stray Kids just... relaxed? the group dropped its 10th EP 'This & That' and the whole thing leans chill, groovy and cool — a full left turn from the rough, maximalist noise they built their entire brand on.
at the Seoul press conference leader Bang Chan basically said as much. "we prepared a new color of Stray Kids, just as the title suggests," he told reporters, and it's giving grown-and-grooving. the hip-hop-based title track shares the EP's name and runs on a looser, cooler energy than anything in their usual arsenal.
before anyone spirals — it's still THEM. all eight tracks were produced entirely in-house by 3Racha (Bang Chan, Changbin and Han), so the chaos gremlins are simply chaos-ing at a lower BPM. Changbin says the title track uses sonic textures they've never touched, wrapped around simple, repeating lyrics so it actually sticks.
nine years deep and choosing the harder, weirder path instead of coasting on the formula that already prints? that's the flex. Stray Kids could've run it back and gone feral on command — instead they're serving restraint, which is somehow the most chaotic thing they could've done. new color unlocked, we are so back.
Reported by Yonhap News Agency. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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Stray Kids' 'THIS & THAT' Holds Billboard 200 Top 3 in Second Week
after debuting at no. 1, the album parked at no. 3 the next week — a first for skz on the big american chart
so about stray kids casually rewriting their own record books again. 'THIS & THAT' debuted at NO. 1 on the billboard 200 and then — instead of politely tumbling — sat pretty at no. 3 the following week.
the milestone, factually: it's the first stray kids album to spend more than one week in the top 3 of the billboard 200. staying power, unlocked.
the second week was their best US frame yet too — around 82,000 equivalent album units for the week ending august 20, a new career high stateside. STAY did not come to play.
another chart record quietly in the bag and honestly the audacity is inspiring. leave some milestones for everyone else, maybe? (don't.)
Reported by Soompi. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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'this & that' is only the SECOND record of all 2026 to hit 3 mil first-week — these men do not miss and i am exhausted (affectionate)
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