Tomorrow X Together returned with their third mini album “Minisode 1: Blue Hour” Monday, sharing a hopeful message to young people isolated and lost in emotions amid the unprecedented pandemic.

“The album tells the story of a boy who faces a completely changed world after experiencing a sudden shift in his relationship with his friend,” the quintet’s leader Soobin said during an online press conference in Seoul.

Fronting the album is “Blue Hour,” a disco dance song reflecting the main story of the album.

“It’s a bright and cheerful disco song. Like the beautiful yet mysterious colors of the sky just before the sunset in the blue hour, the lyrics will portray the beautiful yet fearful emotions of the boy,” Yeonjun said. He added that, hopefully, TXT’s new song could keep alive the disco sensation triggered by “Dynamite” from global sensation BTS, the group’s labelmates under Big Hit Entertainment.

According to Soobin, the album is titled “minisode” because it is a short episode told before turning the page to the next chapter to follow their album “The Dream Chapter.” The new album marks the bandmates’ return five months after they dropped “Eternity,” the last in a three-part series, in May. The series also comprises of their first full-length album “Magic,” which dropped in October 2019, and debut album “Star.”

The five-track album incorporates a variety of music genres and different stories of a boy.

“The indie-rock based ‘Ghosting’ starts off with a vintage sound,” Taehyun, who took part in writing the song, said. “‘Ghosting’ is a newly-coined word which implies a sudden halt in communication. The lyrics tell of a desperate heart concerned and waiting for the friend who suddenly disappeared amid conversation.” Soobin also took part in writing the song.

Empathy is the key theme piercing the album, the members said, and perhaps this is why several showed special affection for the third track “We Lost the Summer.”