K-pop girl group aespa are best known for high-energy, dance-pop bangers like “Supernova” and “Whiplash”, but the members are just as capable of producing more vulnerable, vocally driven tracks. Those songs are usually relegated to B-side status on an aespa album, but 2026’s SYNK : COMPLaeXITY, a four-track EP featuring solo songs from each member, puts sentiment front and centre. KARINA’s track, “16 Bit”, uses the computing term as a metaphor for a fractured, “pixelated” sense of self. On mid-tempo dance track “Saddle Up”, WINTER lays out her expectations to any lover, present and prospective. On “BYEB4HELLO,” a glitch-pop track that ends with a pseudo-Latin love spell, GISELLE is caught between remorse and hope. NINGNING is similarly torn on “I Love You But I Gotta Let You Go”, an album-ending ballad about ending a relationship.