Hailing from South Korea, moonsomoon have caused quite a stir in the independent musical landscape, hypnotising listeners across borders with a keen concoction of crepuscular trip-hop production and brooding, introspective folk lyricism. What propels the project is a fine balance between blissful, bucolic textures and darker tendencies, an aural chiaroscuro that makes moonsomoon incredibly plastic and dynamic, but also meaningful and fervent. ‘Always’ is the perfect evidence of that, a trip-hop-driven cut with a great deal of melancholic storytelling in it.
Delving deeper into ‘Always’ and its overarching album ‘The Old Man Who Lends Nostalgia’ (out now), moonsomoon explain: “The track captures a chilling moment of realisation: a human, having replaced their entire body with machinery, finally wakes up to the void within. Despite being stronger and more ‘perfect’, they are met with a painful recollection of what has ‘always’ been missing: the fragile, mortal essence of humanity. This single serves as the emotional gateway to our album’s larger question: ‘What form does humanity take in an age of technological perfection?’”
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