Here comes the last piece of catching up on what’s been going on with Korean indie music on Korea’s national music charts from Gaon. Following October, just a day before the December charts are published, here comes November. Gaon Korean Album Chart The Korean album chart for November was unusually sparse in terms of indie… Continue reading
Honoring Indieful ROK’s original intent of being a manual aggregator of sorts, I’ve had a look at what some Korean music blogs around have listed as the best releases of 2015 and made a summary. The blogs in question are Weiv, IZM, Music Y, and DiffSound. And to get some more input I also weighed… Continue reading
One of the strongest debuts of 2014–to the extent that label applies to collaborating artists that have already been active separately–was that of singer-songwriter duo Kim Sawol X Kim Haewon. EP {비밀} is stunning and stylish in the best possible way. It has this undeniably sexy air that pulls the listener in and makes it… Continue reading