are quite possibly the nerdiest yet coolest South Korean band you’ll ever meet. The members’ impressive resumes read like every Korean parent’s dream: Bassist Paik Seung-ryeol is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at, where he studies how A.I. and deep learning can be applied to music and audio. Drummer Kang Hyun-woong, a graduate of SNU, works as a software engineer by day. Vocalist and guitarist Nah Sang-hyun is also an SNU graduate and composes, writes, and produces all of the band’s songs.
What’s the secret to their prolificacy? “Songs are, in a sense, a record of a particular moment in time — the feelings that I have in that moment, the kind of music I like and want to do in that moment,” Nah says. “But I think because our tastes change quite frequently, as time passes, we don’t really look back on the songs we made in the past,” he adds, laughing. “So we just release them immediately after producing them as a reflection of what we’re enjoying in that moment.
That mentality has enabled them to infuse a wide array of elements into their music. Pop-punk is heard on “