Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for December this Thursday. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart Picking up from a slow month in November, Korean indie albums sold better during December. hyukoh‘s 22 got another pressing selling out the week of release–total… Continue reading
It’s been four months since the release of Lucid Fall’s fifth full-length album, 아름다운 날들. Even so it was not until last week that the music video for album lead track “어부가 (漁父歌)” was released. A week and a half ago Lucid Fall could be seen on Yoo Hee Yeol’s Sketchbook together with pianist Cho… Continue reading
The Hyang Music Album Chart for the fourth week of January, published earlier this week, offered the return of two old releases. 1. Monkeyz – First Cry (new) 2. Lucid Fall – 아름다운 날들 (-1) 3. Idiotape – 11111101 (-) 4. Lamb of God – Resolution (new) 5. Apollo 18 – The Black Album (-3)… Continue reading
The Hyang Music Album Chart for the third week of January was published yesterday. While no newcomers made it to the very top there were four indie related releases entering the chart below the top 10. Speaking of which, the changes to the top 10 were fairly modest, with Kim Mokin dropping one position down… Continue reading
It appears there were not many changes in album sales at Hyang Music between the first and second weeks of January. The top looks pretty much the same, with Siwa just falling out of the top 10 in favor of French act M83. 1. Lucid Fall – 아름다운 날들 (-) 2. Idiotape – 11111101 (+1) 3…. Continue reading
Vocal group Sweet Sorrow will release their third full length album, Viva, on December 31st. Willing to share the spotlight with others the quartet has featured a number of guest vocalists for the album, among them Lucid Fall who participates on the song “노래할게”. Also featured on the album, for bonus track “좋겠다”, are Oh… Continue reading
Since the last few years digital sales may be more important than sales of CDs in Korea, but that does not mean the CD has completely played out its role as a carrier of music. In some segments of Korea’s indie scene it’s still more common to release a CD than set up a digital… Continue reading