We madei-dle's ninth EP, released on 6 July 2026, with the title track 'Gimme Dat Love'.
We made is i-dle’s ninth mini album, released on 6 July 2026. It is the group’s next mini album after We are of May 2025: ‘Mono (Feat. skaiwater)’, released first as a digital single on 27 January, opens the tracklist, and ‘Crow’, pre-released on 15 June, is its fourth track. The title track is ‘Gimme Dat Love’, and the physical edition alone adds a mono version of ‘Mono’.
The album introduction gives the title track a text that opens with the line “love is faster than words and comes before understanding”, and gives each of the other four songs a text of its own. According to Bugs’ track credits, ‘Gimme Dat Love’ was composed by Abraham Olaleye “Daramola”, Alyx, Samantha Camara and Daily, and arranged by Daramola and Daily.
IZM reviewed two of the record’s songs when they first came out as singles. On 10 February 2026, Park Si-hoon described ‘Mono’ as a black-and-white house track that steps off the path the group had taken so far, and wrote that “a deliberately restrained piece of music opened a new road for i-dle, a group used to the nature of the radical”. On 25 June, Park Su-jin wrote of the pre-release single ‘Crow’ that it is “bold, full and clear”, and closed by calling it “an appealing song that steals the ear and the heart at once”.
TenAsia reported that ‘Crow’ was first performed on the Seoul stage of the group’s world tour Syncopation in February. Park Su-jin wrote that the song takes the crow, long used as a symbol of ill omen and death, and reads it again as a creature that is not shaken by any surroundings and flies higher, making that the song’s central metaphor. Of ‘Mono’, Park Si-hoon pointed to an arrangement in which synthesizers spread quietly over a heavy bass line and drums, and noted the rap of the British rapper skaiwater added to its simple, repetition-led structure.
According to Hanteo News, the record sold 408,461 copies on its release day, 6 July, and topped Hanteo Chart’s daily album ranking. It reached number two on the Circle Chart weekly album chart in week 28 of 2026 (5 to 11 July), and NSP Tongsin reported that it topped Circle Chart’s monthly retail album chart for July with 164,953 copies sold at retail. It entered Billboard’s World Albums chart at number 12 on the chart dated 25 July. The title track reached number 91 on the Circle Chart weekly digital chart in the same week 28. The course from the pre-release single to the monthly chart is set out in the chart run of i-dle’s ninth mini album We made.
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i-dle released the pre-release single 'Crow' on 15 June and the ninth mini album We made on 6 July. The album sold 408,461 copies on release day on Hanteo Chart, and in August it placed first on Circle Chart's July retail album chart. Here is the run from the single to the monthly chart.
