Overview

• Hunter, Key’s first full-length studio album since 2022’s Gasoline, was released on August 11 through SM Entertainment.
• The album’s central urban legend theme dramatizes a clash between Key and his alter ego across a 10-track narrative.
• Title track “Hunter” combines grand bass, heavy kicks, rhythmic guitar riffs and layered synth pads to explore internal conflict.
• The record ventures into experimental genres—from new jack swing on “Infatuation” to grungy punk rock on English single “Strange.”
• Collaborations include PLAVE’s Eunho on “Infatuation” and Red Velvet’s Seulgi on “Perfect Error.”