Seoul Metro

Seoul Metro is the solo project of Manchester-based songwriter and producer Chris Gibson. Sparkling indie pop may seem at odds with the grey skies of Chris's native ‘Costa del Stretford’, but it’s actually a tradition woven into the fabric of his rainy home city. His juxtaposition of emotive lyrics with glistening melody stands on the shoulders of Mancunians past, jumping off from the wide-eyed melancholy of The Smiths, falling through the rhythm of New Order, and landing somewhere in the vicinity of The 1975 and Blossoms. The seed of Seoul Metro was planted during a visit to the South Korean capital, where Chris was inspired by the city's famously bold neon signs, and its inhabitants' unabashed love of K-Pop. "I love pop music and bold imagery, but I'd always thought of it as a guilty pleasure," Chris explains. "Korea showed me how to let go of that. I wanted to incorporate those 'guilty pleasure' influences into the songs I was writing."