Zerobaseone Relaunches as Five With 'Ascend-'

Overview

• Zerobaseone released its sixth EP, 'Ascend-,' on Monday, the group's first music since reorganizing as five members.
• 'Top 5' leads the record as a dance-pop and contemporary R&B track that nods to early‑2000s artists like Usher, Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
• The visuals favor a clean, stripped-back look, and the hyphen in 'Ascend-' serves as a symbol of carrying the group forward.
• Park Gun-wook contributes his first self-produced song, 'Customize,' as the members take a bigger role in choosing tracks and shaping performance.
• The act formed through Mnet's 'Boys Planet' as a time-limited project, and four former members plan to debut as AND2BLE with Yoo Seung-eon after March's split.