Close Your Eyes releases 30-day mini 4th album '256th Note'... Sweeping 10 Rookie Awards

CLOSE YOUR EYES announced the release of their fourth mini-album, ″256th Note.″ On the 7th, their agency Uncore revealed a coming soon poster for CLOSE YOUR EYES, consisting of Jeon Min-wook, Majingxiang, Jang Yeo-jun, Kim Sung-min, Song Seung-ho, Kenshin, and Seo Kyung-bae, through their official account. This album is the first new release in about five months since the digital single ″POSE″ in April. ″256th Note″ is scheduled to be released on the 30th at 6 PM through various online music platforms, with a comeback trailer to be unveiled earlier on the 8th at 8 PM. CLOSE YOUR EYES is a boy group formed through JTBC’s audition program ″Project 7,″ debuting last April with their first mini-album ″ETERNALT.″ They later broke their own records with their third mini-album ″blackout,″ and the cumulative sales of their three mini-albums have surpassed 1.2 million copies. On music shows, they have taken first place with their debut song ″All the Poems and Novels Inside Me,″ as well as with ″Snowy Summer″ and ″X.″ Additionally, at the ″2026 SPOTV K-POP AWARDS (2026 SKA)″ held on the 6th, they won the Next Generation Award, achieving a total of 10 rookie awards. This is the highest number of rookie awards won by any boy group that debuted in 2025. The revealed coming soon poster features freely connected lines and drawings that appear to be improvised, visuals where figures and instruments are naturally connected by a single line, and the phrase ″THE 256TH NOTE IS MISSING.″