Music to drink tea by
The Koreans
As you can probably guess from the helpful picture above, The Koreans aren’t actually Korean. I also can’t seem to find out why they decided to call themselves The Koreans. It all seems rather random if I’m honest.
There’s a good chance that I never would have discovered The Koreans if not for the Virgin £1.99 sale. I bought a ton of discs by bands I’d never heard of before, but had something to convince me to give them a shot. Some of them had record labels I liked, others were bands I’d vaguely heard about but had never listened to. The Koreans though sold me entirely with the cover to their album. Now granted that’s a pretty lame reason to buy an album, but it seems to have worked out rather well in this case.
I don’t know a great deal about the band, other than the fact they are British. They are also very refreshing in that unlike nearly every other recent UK band, they don’t go for the rough garage rock sound. Their music is carefully constructed, with every note seemingly put in it’s place for a reason. There’s nothing groundbreaking original here, but next to The Libertines clone #517, they do sound rather refreshing.
MP3 The Koreans – Keep Me In Your Mind
The downside of all of this though seems to be that the band is no longer together. Their website hasn’t been updated in the best part of two years since the record came out, there’s no reference to them on just about the entire website, and their message board is quieter than a Scientology birth. Whether they are still together and just very, very lazy in updating I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem to look good for them. Which is a shame as they had potential to be very good.
Awesome film alert..
Last night I went to see Brick, which is easily the best thing that has been released this year. It opened in the UK yesterday and it’s still playing in a limited run in the US, so there’s still a chance to see it. I’m not here to talk about films in any great detail, so I’ll be brief, but it’s intelligent, it’s funny and features Nora Zehetner, three things that are sadly missing from the vast majority of films these days. So get in to see it early, because I’ll put money on it being the next “cult” thing that everyone will be raving about by the time it reaches DVD.
if it makes you feel any better about liking it strictly based on the album cover, i think i like them simply based on the fact that they are called the koreans and none of them are, in fact, korean…..
oh and the song is pretty good too :)
thanks!