Name: 그댄 봄비를 무척 좋아하나요 by MEATBALLREC
Duration: 3 min 50 s
Description: 배따라기 - 그댄 봄비를 무척 좋아하나요 (1984)

광기를 품은 채 스스로 망가져가며 홀로 그리워할 뿐

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가위치기걸즈(SCISSORING-GIRLS) - 미스매치(MISMATCH)

Artist: Pal Hwang Dan
Album: 2013-2021 Seoul
Format: Digital / Tape
Cat.No: CHI036
Master: Pal Hwang Dan
Artwork: Saphy Vong
Release Date: 19 November 2021
'Usadan - Ro' Music Video: https://youtu.be/o1tuRV22kxM

Pop iconoclast Pal Hwang Dan returns for his third release on Chinabot, 2013-2021 Seoul. Through solid-gold synth-pop hooks and his deadpan, romantic vocal delivery, he paints a picture of life in modern-day Seoul filled with yearning, loneliness, absurdity and rampant consumerism.

It’s not just watertight song-writing which makes 2013-2021 Seoul is his most clear-eyed release yet. His vision is immediately clear in opening track Usadan-ro (우사단로), an irresistible slice of off-kilter hypnagogic pop. The accompanying music video shows Pal Hwang Dan dancing around his crappy, tiny Seoul apartment, playing like a child and eating maggots on avocado toast.

“There was no sunlight outside the window, only saw the Che Agency sign,” he sings over the propulsive, bittersweet melody. “The phone was dead, woke up, not knowing the time.” A defiant assertion of energy within the empty isolation of city life, Pal Hwang Dan shows his iconoclastic charisma as a modern Korean pop performer with a vision more in line with Parasite (2019) than K-Pop’s high glitz.

Alienation and consumerism are recurring themes in 2013-2021 Seoul. 19800 Won (19800원) is a melancholy, spoken-word and harmonica track reminiscent of early Dean Blunt. Named after a t-shirt he designed and sold for 19,800 Korean Won, the music video is positioned as a t-shirt advert shot through a surreal vapourwave lens. In a black suit, Pal Hwang Dan performs his song karaoke-style behind an ever-increasing frenzy of graphics in an advert gone horrible wrong.

He nonetheless retains a romantic wistfulness, his childlike, hooky melodies and soft vocals suggesting a wistful optimism. The video for Far Away (멀리있어) sees Pal Hwang Dan waiting on a beach to have a picnic, sketching the sea and holding a rose. His lover never comes, however - instead, we see naively hand-drawn adverts, ratings and prices for the picnic items, like Coca-Cola and Kleenex, a nod to the Korean obsession of rating consumer products. Far Away (멀리있어) has a savagely playful romanticism and cynicism reminiscent of Serge Gainsbourg.

Despite his strong pop sensibility, he never abandons a deeper sense of avant-guard strangeness. Jungchon Alpine Club 중촌 산악회 is about the Japanese nationalist writer Yukio Mishima who committed seppuku in 1970 after a failed coup, someone Pal Hwang Dan describes as “foolish but interesting”. His frantic, pitched repetitive vocals contrast with the dark experimental country underneath, creating a sense of creeping unease.

“I grew up in Anyang City,” says Pal Hwang Dan. “After I became an adult, I lived in Seoul for a long time. But Seoul has always felt foreign to me.” 2013-2021 Seoul is such a powerful depiction of disjointed urban life it is immediately recognisable to city-dwellers everywhere. A bold evolution of craft and vision, it cements Pal Hwang Dan as one of the most unique voices in pop music today.

“Pal Hwang Dan gleefully combines 1980s synths, video game music and crisp, melancholic synthpop into a sound as shiny and metallic as a Technicolour mecha battle royale” – The Wire

“Emanates an alluring darkness — like, somewhere, there is a disco apocalypse waiting for us… If that's what we're headed for, then sign me up” – The Fader

About the artist
Pal Hwang Dan, real name Pal Boche, is a musician living in Seoul, where he moved in 2013. He is inspired by industrial, K-pop and animation. He works as a composer for advertising and video game soundtracks. His first album with Chinabot, Saneopseonjip, was released in 2018, followed by A Length of Line in 2020.

2013-2021 Seoul

Usadan - Ro 우사단로

Pal Hwang Dan - Usadan - Ro 우사단로

오즈월드 cover

lyrics by yu:u(유우)
compose by yu:u(유우), H!
arrange by H!
mix&mastering by yu:u(유우)

every don't know
못 찾겠어 날 유리에 비춘 난 지워졌어
나 홀로 걷던 거리에 흔적도 너로 채워져 yeah

나를 움직이게 해줘 숨 쉴 수는 없고 이상해 웃고 있는 넌
don't your want it, all of systems
think about it girl 내게 속삭이던

어떤 말도 믿지 않아
거울에 비친 난 깨져있잖아
받은 상처만큼 너가 아파하길 바라는 내가 싫어

when i think of you 나는 널 닮아가
나쁜 점들까지 너에게 맞춰가
장난치는 것도 자는 시간도 우린 서로를 밀어내는 것까지
like mirroring i feel like you
내 마음을 넌 알게 될까
when i think of you 너는 날 닮아가
내가 아픈 만큼 너도 아프겠지

시계바늘은 움직이고 있어
빗물에 잠겨 스며들고 있어
반복되는 외로움 속에 빠져들어가 yeah

너에게 의심 가는 건 아무에게나 잘해줘
원래 그런 거니까 흘러가게 내비 두래
애써 눈 감아 그렇게 또 넘어가
think about it girl i'm not a fine

어떤 말도 믿지 않아
거울에 비친 난 깨져있잖아
받은 상처만큼 너가 아파하길 바라는 내가 싫어

when i think of you 나는 널 닮아가
나쁜 점들까지 너에게 맞춰가
장난치는 것도 자는 시간도 우린 서로를 밀어내는 것까지
like mirroring i feel like you
내 마음을 넌 알게 될까
when i think of you 너는 날 닮아가
내가 아픈 만큼 너도 아프겠지

girl i'm not ready for love babe
아직 널 감당하기 힘든 거 알잖아 know
sure 항상 넌 그랬어 왜 내게 어려운 걸 바라

girl 난 안 바라 더 그만둘래 소용없는 love
반복되는 싸움에 지겨워져 손을 놓을게

when i think of you 나는 널 닮아가
나쁜 점들까지 너에게 맞춰가
장난치는 것도 자는 시간도 우린 서로를 밀어내는 것까지
like mirroring i feel like you
내 마음을 넌 알게 될까
when i think of you 너는 날 닮아가
내가 아픈 만큼 너도 아프겠지

Mirroring(prod.H!) (221107 발매)

아빠가 벽장 안에 있을 리가 없잖아
아빠는 영국으로 출장가신 거야
꼭 그렇게 말해야 해
엄마 속 썩이지말고.
옆집 아이들이 물어봐도
꼭 그렇게 말해야 해

Tales

Nuncoband(눈뜨고 코베인)— 아빠가 벽장 (Daddy Closet)

X는 단지 옛 연인이 아닌 어떤 상황에서의 누군가를 지칭하며 그 대상은 저마다 다르게 해석할 수 있습니다.

Prod. Tmlm
Mix & Master. LBNL
arrange. 지우,LBNL


사람은 너무 아프게 와 예고도 없이 무작정 나에게로
사랑은 그렇게 떠나가 이유도 없이 흔적조차 남기지 않고
지금 내게 남은 것은 이 노래 하나 내게서 날 가져가 
지금
도망가 최대한 멀리 이 답답한 도시의 밤은 너무 밝아

Get out of my head 
그게 뭐든 지금 
내 머릿속에서 나가줘

Get out of this town
최대한 멀리
그게 어디든
이 곳만 벗어날 수 있게

오늘도 널 다시 반복 
지금 너는 어디에서 뭐하는지
아직 난 이곳에 갇혀
우리의 만남 시작과 끝 어딘가 사이에

나를 내려놓고 너 하나 손에 쥐고서 
길고 긴 꿈속으로 난 diving

너는 나를 보며 내 눈을 바라보며 여전히 내 탓을 하는 너를 난

Get out of my head
그게 뭐든 이제
상관없으니 제발 나가줘

Get out of this town
최대한 우리 멀리 멀리 멀리 날아가자

Get out of my pain 
이 고통 
Get out of you

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