There is a particular ache in measuring a love against the first one. ‘첫사랑의 기준은!’—“What Defines First Love!”—is the second collaboration between Korean R&B/Soul artists Ender and Soyeon, a slow-tempo ballad that sits with that…
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Some songs are about the high; ‘JUICE’ is about the comedown that follows. The new single from artist-producer-DJ LEVEN is an R&B/Soul study of a brief encounter—the fleeting rush of wanting someone, and the hollow…
It might be the most disarming line in recent indie rock: show me a picture of your mother. On ‘I Wanna See Your Mother’s Picture,’ the cheeky new single from Korean four-piece Men And Them,…
Some songs take three minutes to make their point; ‘OhWah!’ makes it in a single syllable. The funk-charged new release from SIMILE LAND—the Seoul five-piece increasingly cast as Korean indie’s enfant terrible—is built around one…
Some songs take the long way home. Back in 2008, the artist youyon heard a melody in a dream—fleeting, unplaceable, gone by morning. Eighteen years later, in 2026, she finally coaxed it back into the…
Some bands announce a new chapter; Daylotus builds a whole universe for it. ‘Akemichan’ is the Korean visual rock band’s step away from the metalcore of their earlier work and into something darker and more…
Some compilations just gather names; ‘Ω (OHM)’ wires them together. The new EP from OPCD and HAUS OF MATTERS is the product of their ‘Apollo Project’—a five-week collaboration pairing five rising artists with five aspiring…
Put a rapper and a producer in the same room and you usually get a feature. Put these two in it and you get a collision. ‘VOLTAGE 29000’ is the first joint single from AT…
Not every journey needs to hurry. ‘Snail Song’ is a cross-border indie-pop single that follows a snail’s unhurried way home, carried by the warm piano and dreamy vocals of two scenes meeting in the middle—Bangkok’s…
Some records sound like a destination; ‘Midnight Highway’ sounds like the drive there. The latest from Baby Jane—the Los Angeles dark dance-electronic artist with more than 935,000 monthly Spotify listeners—turns the image of a straight,…
