Silica Gel fans will be excited they have announced the release of their next album; it has been three years since their last album release. Ballad of You was released August 20, 2026 and can be found on all of Silica Gel social media.
The keyword running through the album is “Spiral Molting”. It is a concept Silica Gel newly proposed over the course of making the album, reinterpreting the Buddhist idea of samsara as a three-dimensional structure rather than a flat one. Working from the premise that the cycle of death and rebirth also carries depth and direction, the band folded that concept into both the recording and the visuals throughout.
The title track “Manphasickzuck” takes its name from Manpasikjeok, a legendary flute from the Unified Silla period. Directed by Jeon Jae-min (a.k.a. kamikacki), the music video draws on images of birds tracing the path of a comet and bold typography rendering the song’s title in Chinese characters, realizing an Eastern aesthetic that is at once mysterious and forceful.
Now that the album has been released the band can now concentrate in hitting the stage in Seoul than on to its first Asia tour, with Hong Kong and Tokyo on the schedule. The shows – which will feature every track from the new album in the setlist – are the largest headline concerts Silica Gel has staged to date and promise a performance set apart from its previous ones in everything from direction to stage design.
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