'When Are You Leaving?' is the second full-length album from LA-based Korean-American artist NoSo (Baek Hwong), and it marks a bold evolution in both sound and storytelling. Where their 2022 debut 'Stay Proud of Me' introduced a deeply earnest voice navigating identity and belonging - earning praise from NPR's All Songs Considered, Paste, The Guardian, and a stunning performance at Tiny Desk - this follow-up turns the lends inward with even greater clarity and confidence.
Across a vibrant palette of disco grooves, jagged guitars, and atmospheric ballads, NoSo captures the quiet power of letting go - of fractured relationships, old narratives, and the need to be understood by others. The album is rich with emotional contrast: thorny truths wrapped in dreamy production, vulnerability delivered with the assuredness of an artist coming fully into their own.
Self-produced and sonically fearless, 'When Are You Leaving?' is a coming-of-age record for anyone still in the process of becoming, and a testament to NoSo's place among the most compelling songwriters of their generation.
Across a vibrant palette of disco grooves, jagged guitars, and atmospheric ballads, NoSo captures the quiet power of letting go - of fractured relationships, old narratives, and the need to be understood by others. The album is rich with emotional contrast: thorny truths wrapped in dreamy production, vulnerability delivered with the assuredness of an artist coming fully into their own.
Self-produced and sonically fearless, 'When Are You Leaving?' is a coming-of-age record for anyone still in the process of becoming, and a testament to NoSo's place among the most compelling songwriters of their generation.
TRACK LISTING
1. A Believable Boy
2. Sugar
3. You're No Man
4. Don't Hurt Me, I'm Trying
5. DAD MADE TOAST!
6. My Fault My Fault
7. Who Made You This Sweet?
8. But You Want Him
9 .Nara
10. Let It Die