‘Take Me Back’ is a new single from Habitat, a Korean five-piece on PH Records. Two electric guitars sit under a string arrangement by So Heun Yeo, and the song follows a summer breakup that…
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The Strike turn “Down” into a vivid tribute to ambition, youth and the messy years spent chasing something bigger. Released in 2024 and later included on A Dream Through Open Eyes, the track sits comfortably…
‘너라서’ is a new single from AKIIRO, a four-piece Korean band, and bassist SOZY wrote and produced it. The premise is a letter that never gets sent, taken out and written again every time the…
Mingkoo works across spatial audio, sound installation and live performance, and gathers all of it under a single idea he calls Aural Presence. ‘Door Talk’ is the lead track from ‘Threshold Studies’, an EP collecting…
Groovy was once one of the most popular ways to play music in a Discord server. However, the original Groovy bot closed in August 2021 and can no longer be added to Discord. Fortunately, several…
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 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…
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 songs arrive without ever raising their voice. ‘足る’ (taru)—a word that means having just enough—is the first joint single from Prod.Dex, the Seoul-based J-Pop producer behind more than 11.4 million Spotify streams on ‘Where…
