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ASTRO’s iconic subunit MOONBIN&SANHA is ringing in the new year with mystery and panache. Their highly anticipated 3rd EP, “Incense” finally dropped on January 4, 2023, and almost immediately made waves across the world, topping charts and trends left and right. It was met with an overwhelmingly positive response from music lovers globally and proved to be a grand success, even breaking the duo’s own record in first-day sales.
“Incense” comes after MOONBIN&SANHA’s ultra-successful 2nd EP “Refuge” and continues the coherent storyline that was first introduced in “In-Out” with ‘Bad Idea’ and fleshed out in ‘Who’. This thread of dark, fatalistic mystery runs deep in ‘Madness’, the title track of “Incense”, but the album itself takes on an aesthetic binary, gently holding us by the hand as we embark on a cruise of emotions that is nothing, if not a cinematic experience.
In the language of perfumery, paying homage to MOONBIN&SANHA’s very first song on the tracklist - ‘Perfumer’, “Incense” lures us in with a rich, warm, addictive note, which later dissipates into something of a pure, white floral innocence, reminiscent of a sweet summer day - ‘Your Day’. “Incense” transforms
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