HyukOh - [Through Love] 2nd Album
HyukOh - [Through Love] 2nd Album
Release Date: September 7, 2023
Contents (per version):
- 1 CD
- 1 Booklet
Depending on versions, contents (cover, photo book, mini book, photo cards, posters, etc.) in the official album package may vary.
All products are officially distributed BRAND NEW and FACTORY SEALED packages.
Your purchase quantity will count towards HANTEO, CIRCLE (GAON) and BILLBOARD Charts.
[Track List]
DISK(CD) 1.
01. Help
02. Hey Sun
03. Silverhair Express
04. Flat dog
05. World of the Forgotten
06. New born
Description (Translated):
Hyukoh returned with a new album <With Love> a year after <24: How to find true love and happiness>. While Hyukoh's work method so far has been to move toward a pre-determined musical direction, the work on this album was done in a very process-oriented manner. Musical instruments were recorded at Real World Studios, a historic Real World studio in the UK where Paul Simon, Amy Winehouse, Bjork, Kanye West, etc. have worked, and vocals were recorded and mixed in Berlin with Hyukoh's long-time collaborator Norman Nietzsche. This album moves closer to the analog sound that Hyukoh has been actively pursuing since [23], and in terms of format, he tried to remove everything except the most necessary elements to create an album. This album, which all members are proud of as the most satisfying result in terms of sound, can be said to be a record of the musical dialogue and process shown by Hyukoh, a band in their 6th year of debut.['With love', not '26']
“The more you know about love, the more difficult and complex it is, and so it exists in the form of what Hegel called “the strangest contradiction,” which cannot be solved by reason, but love is still, uniquely, for us who are groaning in the valley of contradiction and absurdity. It's almost the only alternative to reaching out. That is why we repeatedly ask questions about the nature of love.” _Jang Seok-ju, <About Love>
The title of Hyukoh's album, which had been based on his age when working on albums such as [22], [23], and [24: How to find true love and happiness], has changed. As the number in the title symbolizes, Hyukoh, who has been singing about the various emotions and thoughts of youth, now expands the horizon of interest and sympathy to various problematic phenomena in our society on a daily and political level and practical methods to improve and overcome them. .
The problems we experience every day, such as discrimination, hatred, entrenched superiority, generational conflict, and environmental destruction, are the result of a contemporary social structure that was built quickly and abnormally without reflective thinking. Hyukoh does not come up with grandiose catchphrases that subvert and improve this pattern, but presents 'love' as a daily practice that can be done starting today.
In the meantime
[Song composition with connected structure]
The album <With Love> consists of a total of 6 songs, and all the songs are the title, and each of the 6 songs is also one song. The Hyukoh members who created the album composed six songs with unique titles, including 'Help', 'Hey Sun', 'Silverhair Express', 'Flat dog', 'World of the Forgotten', and 'New born', as a single 27-minute song. It is said that it is okay to view it as such. Additionally, the six songs included in <With Love> were carefully mastered so that they can be enjoyed continuously in the order in which they were included in the album. All six songs have their own unique charm, but I hope that this <With Love> will be completed over a long period of time as all the songs have a single narrative and flow.
[Wolfgang Tillmans,
The image that adorns the <With Love> album is by Wolfgang Tillmans, a representative contemporary photographer.
Tillmans' 2011 work
Description (Original):
혁오가 <24: How to find true love and happiness> 이후 1년 만에 새 앨범 <사랑으로>로 돌아왔다. 그간 혁오가 진행했던 작업 방식이 미리 정해둔 음악적 지향점을 향해 나아가는 것이었다면, 이번 앨범 작업은 다분히 과정지향적인 방식으로 이루어졌다. 폴 사이먼, 에이미 와인하우스, 뷔욕, 칸예 웨스트 등이 작업한 바 있는 영국의 유서깊은 리얼월드 스튜디오 Real World Studios에서 악기 녹음을, 베를린에서 혁오의 오랜 협업자인 놀먼 니체와 함께 보컬 녹음 및 믹싱을 진행한 이번 앨범은 혁오가 [23] 때부터 적극적으로 추구했던 아날로그 사운드에 보다 가까이 다가갔으며, 형식 면에서는 앨범을 만드는 데 가장 필요한 요소 외의 모든 것을 덜어내고자 했다. 멤버 모두가 사운드적으로 가장 만족스러운 결과물이라 자부하는 이번 앨범은 데뷔 6년 차 밴드 혁오가 보여주는 음악적 대화와 그 과정의 기록이라고 할 수 있다.['26'이 아닌 '사랑으로']
“사랑은 알면 알수록 어렵고 복잡한, 그래서 이성으로는 풀 수 없는, 헤겔이 말한바 “가장 괴이한 모순”의 형태로 존재하지만, 사랑은, 여전히, 유일하게, 모순과 부조리의 골짜기에서 신음하는 우리에게 손을 뻗는 거의 유일한 대안이다. 그게 우리가 사랑의 본질을 향해 거듭 물음을 던지는 이유다.” _장석주, <사랑에 대하여>
[22], [23], [24: How to find true love and happiness] 등 음반 작업 당시 나이를 제목으로 해왔던 혁오의 앨범 제목이 달라졌다. 제목의 숫자가 상징하듯 청춘이 갖는 다양한 감정과 상념을 노래해 왔던 혁오는 이제 관심과 공감의 지평을 우리 사회가 일상적/정치적으로 갖는 여러 문제적 현상들과 이를 개선하고 극복하기 위한 실천 방식으로 넓힌다.
우리가 매일 경험하고 있는 차별과 혐오, 고정된 우위, 세대 갈등, 환경파괴 등의 문제는 반성적 사고 없이 빠르고 기형적으로 구축된 동시대의 사회구조 아래 만들어진 결과물이다. 혁오는 이러한 양상을 전복하고 개선하는 거창한 캐치프레이즈를 내놓는 것이 아니라, 오늘부터 할 수 있는 일상의 실천으로서 '사랑'을 제시한다.
그간
[연결된 구조의 곡 구성]
총 6곡으로 이루어져 있는 앨범 <사랑으로>는 전곡이 타이틀이자, 6곡이 하나이기도 하다. 앨범을 만든 혁오 멤버들은 'Help', 'Hey Sun', 'Silverhair Express', 'Flat dog', 'World of the Forgotten', 'New born' 등 독자적인 제목을 가지고 있는 6곡을 27분짜리 단일 곡으로 보아도 무방하다고 말한다. 또한 <사랑으로>에 포함된 6곡은 앨범에 수록된 순서대로 연속해서 즐길 수 있도록 심혈을 기울여 마스터링했다. 6곡 모두 특유의 매력을 가지고 있지만, 이번 <사랑으로>는 하나의 서사와 흐름을 가지고 있는 전곡을 긴 호흡으로 완상하기를 바란다.
[볼프강 틸만스,
<사랑으로> 앨범을 장식한 이미지는 동시대를 대표하는 사진작가 볼프강 틸만스Wolfgang Tillmans의
틸만스의 2011년작
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