Summer Episode is the first single album by South Korean brother-sister duo, AKMU, released on July 20, 2017. It was the last release by AKMU before Chanhyuk's military service began.
Background
On July 14, YG Entertainment revealed two teaser images and a short clip, which hint at a spooky concept for the new album, to be released on July 20.[1] In following days, teaser images were released with the captions “New Summer Episode Scene #1” and “New Summer Episode Scene #2.”[2] On July 19, the album tracklist was revealed containing double title tracks.[3] "Dinosaur", which marks the duo's first time taking on the EDM genre, is a track about the feelings of fear that Chanhyuk had to endure alone as a child, whereas "My Darling", contains Akdong Musician’s characteristic cheerful, acoustic sound.[4]
The music video has use of retro and simple aesthetics, for example, the girl's room and the iMac G3 is used.
