jennifer b

it took me over 10 years to get on the EXO train but I'm finally onboard...this might be the best kpop release in the last few years

Beloved korean indie band HYUKOH and taiwanese synth-pop band 日落飞车 Sunset Rollercoaster come together to form mega group AAA. The resulting collaboration is a surreal, dreamy, poetic album that captures the type of summer you can spend in balmy island taiwan. The lyrics alternate from korean to mandarin, and captures a kind of tantric, mesmerizing poetry. This album has been the soundtrack to my summer.

Favourite songs: Antenna, Young Man

I find it impossible to rate this because it feels so deeply personal to me.

The first half reminds me of being 13, driving with my parents from Toronto to Niagara Falls, the windows rolled down and the radio cutting in and out, from CHUM-FM to CJED-FM as we pass through the FM stations broadcast of cities along the way. Being 19 and on the Greyhound to New York or Montreal, equipped with just an off-brand 128MB MP3 player for a 12 hour bus ride (and definitely no smartphone).

The album evokes for me a nostalgia (even on the first listen) for a monotonous Canadian suburbia I was so desperate to escape years ago that feels boundless and hopeful in… More

i'm screaming for mother to release this on vinyl