Vinyl - Seoul Metro - Under The Same Sky - Numbered edition
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- Artist : Seoul Metro
- Label : Orbital Perspective Records
- Format : 1 x 12"(180g)
- Country : United Kingdom
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Description
Music and lyrics by Seoul Metro.
Performed by Seoul Metro.
Mixed by Chris Gibson.
Recorded in Stretford, Manchester, UK.
Seoul Metro's debut album, Under The Same Sky, began with a new year's resolution to write a new song every month in 2024. The twelve resulting songs are direct, emotional representations of songwriter Chris Gibson's life at the time of writing.
Sonically, it's an album of contrasts, with Chris' signature melodic and lyrical style taking detours into frenetic indie (Dreamer, Tomorrow), beautiful synthpop (Singapore), soaring atmospheric rock (Home), post-punk (Space Cadet) and introspective balladry (Atmosphere, Felix Felicis).
Each song is a separate story, but inhabiting the same world - hence the title. Although the individual songs are autobiographical, as the album took shape, a semi-fictional second narrative began to appear. Characters emerged and began to interact with one another. Taken together in the correct sequence, the set of songs became something greater than the sum of its parts: a widescreen story touching on themes of distance, both physical and emotional, and the importance of connection to people and places.
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."