K - Music! (discussiom and recs.)

 Moonlight:

       

hi! thanks for engaging with the topic ^^ 

I'd actually appreciate it very much if you'd write a bit in addition to the songs. This is for discovering hidden gems and artists you wouldn't come across just like that 🤗

BTW love this song!

UPDATE 

Who knew South Korea had a City Pop phase too? (probably everyone except me but yeah, anyways~) South this past week I had an unexplainable need to hear Light&Salt - 'fairy of shampoo' and just let Spotify take it from there.

Oh wow how fun it was!

The new additions this time are: (they're not so much underrated as they're just a Lil bit old I guess, some of them are very appreciated and maybe even classi idk)

Light & Salt - i just love their tunes. Seriously I can listen to them forever. 

Yoon Sang - I feel like he's really known nationally but not internationally?

Rollercoaster - early 2000 is one of my favorite music area and apparently it doesn't matter where from~

Casker - Suddenly started playing and I had to stop it all so I can sit and take it in. Pure City Pop and I love it so much T_T

 wookii:

fairy of shampoo is soooo good! 😭

it is really 🥺 I love every version of it (they covered it in Superband 1st season and I fell in love immediately T_T)

But they have so many other great song I only know discovered and it was so fun. love their music 

 puma161:

Here're some of my current favs: (still hadn't figured out how to insert youtyube videos so you'll just have to trust me ^^)

suggi - he has cute and calm but also clinical music which I love listening to.

Keshi - I love his calm beats

eaj -  love his songs, his voice and attitude; upbeat but serious. melancholic but with a good vibes. he's great.

DPR IAN - I'm actually so invested in his music, mv directing and producing.

Sion - I don't even know how to describe his music cause it's so indie XD he's great, tho. his lyrics are everything I didn't know I needed.

Silica Gel - their sound and using of instruments make my heart reaches rates I didn't know existed.

Hucklberryfinn - they remind me very much of a duo I love (TENDER) and this dark, intimate type of music is getting me every single time.

Oh my goodness!!! I have not listened to suggi in a hot minute, I remember coming across his way back home cover and putting his songs on repeat for one month straight. Still can sing uwu on command even if I had to look up the song title

For me personally, my k-music listening era is kinda slowing down and I've moved on to k-ballads, so do forgive me if a lot of these are older than 2 years. I don't have that many artists I stuck with but here's a a few recs:

DAY6 - Love or Leave Me and  Sweet Chaos

eaJ - Pacman

Hoppipola -  Your Ocean  and   Enough

Junny - Hide and Sick ; Movie ; Nostalgia ft. JayB

Yang Da Il - All of them? I don't know what songs to recommend because I love a lot of his stuff, he's the perfect guy for your dose of melo/ballad.

케이시 Kassy - Story of Night Fall ; True Song ; The day was beautiful (also a melo song queen, she will tug at your heartstrings)

DVWN -  Concrete ft. CHEEZE ;  기억소각 ft. Giriboy ;  Last (this man knows groovy and it shows)

JUNG JIN WOO  - Grandfather ; Noise 

GAHO - Then  ft. VILLAIN and Fly

PLT  - Hocus Pocus  (jung jinwoo, villain and gaho are all ex-members of this group, they disbanded a few years ago 😔 but every member is active doing their solo stuff)

AHN YE EUN - The Moon During the Day (the song that kickstarted my obsessession with this artist)

haven't been on this page in a while, so here are a few others that i've found!

damdamgugu - rape flower, late summer, rose, love, slow dance

(not a k artist, but!) school girl bye bye - polaroid, cool cat, banana moon, eat me alive, lunch poem

JUE - d-day, lucid dream, being being, your plan

Yayyoung - if only you knew, do you feel like you have no one to turn to?, look at me now

Milena - ice cube, sugardance, why do we fall in love?

off the menu - lovers in seoul, the wall, mosaic, sunshine, driven anxiety, echoes

Haeil - satellite, crisis, i want you

Ooh, I love Day6! A really good song of theirs is Not Mine! I'm not sure how to add youtube videos, but its a really good song. Also Stop Talking is a good one too, also by Day6! And I Need Somebody, its melancholic while still being kinda upbeat! 

 Perry:

I'm so happy to hear that!

I have struggled to find where to watch Superband, I also got to know Hoppipola from their  cover of 1000x on the show. LUCY too but I  never checked them out after their debut song for some unknown reason 😭😭

I'm slowly getting into DAY6 and eaJ rn so feel free to recommend me some of your favorites. Oh and DPR IAN too, I haven't listened to anything he's made other than Ballroom Extravaganza 😔

Ohhhh actually I think I've found all of the episodes of the first season on the official company's website (after watching the couple first ones on a fansub.) I love LUCY, their music gives such good vibes and lifting my spirit every time I listen to them. (also I feel like Superband has to get it's own rec cause their covers and music are just *chef's kiss*)

I'll recommend some when I have time but as the comment under yours said: Not Mine and I Need Somebody are great. 

*I'll edit this comment later with more recommendations :)

So, after traveling for a bit (in South Korea actually) and meeting some cool people that couldn't bellive I know other Korean music then K-pop - New Additions (rock and indie rock)

Thornapple - which I got to know a while ago and don't even remember how, became one of my favorit bands at the moment. they have such a distinctive sound and their useage of instrumants is so uniqe and versatil. also the singer's voice is one of the best. dark but I can't stop listening.

PIETTA - was recommended to me by someone I met there a wow, what a sound. they reminde me a 90s rock bands from my country. dark and heavy, like I got lost in a vaccum.

MOT - lost in the forest, and night is coming and the world goes dark and it's just me and the bear that's about to find me but for some reason I feel so safe.

The Solutions - just fun listening to them.