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Album Introduction
J BEL 1st EP [Black and White]
From J BEL ONE to J BEL. It may not seem like a big change, but what should be remembered is the 10 years he has endured in the reality of Korean rock music. J BEL, who started at one point in the Hongdae indie scene from the early 2000s to the present, has clearly been constantly varying his music.
He, who released the single album 'She Doesn't Love Me' in 2011, appeared with a mini-album with 4 songs. The overarching theme is love, yes, that commonplace love. He released this old grammar of love, a universal human theme, reminiscing about past memories, in 2012, that is, in this strange era when the destruction of mankind is being talked about.
J BEL ONE's mini-album 'Black and White' is doing a strange tightrope walk between regression and evolution. To put it in a more sophisticated way, it can be seen as based on dialectical thinking about progress and retreat.
As can be seen in the song '1999 Love (Subtitle: Black Night Love)', his song starts at some point in 1999. It is a painful memory of first love that everyone is likely to have. It becomes hope in 'Unremembered New', and conveys an enlightenment gained in despair in 'She Doesn't Love Me'. The last song 'Journey' unravels everything after the previous process.
Again, it's the past. I want to say that the reason for J BEL's surprising choice and the emotion that he wants to convey to the listener is a secondary issue. What really mattered was the vessel that contained the story. Along with the arrangement of each song that suggests the intersection of light and darkness, the vessel chosen by J BEL ONE was Korean modern rock and folk rock in the 1980s or early 1990s.
So, it can't help but be really welcome. This is because he is soothing the strange alienation that one might have felt from the retro craze of popular songs. Our rock kids who felt alienated in [Reply 1997], which aired on a cable channel, hope to find comfort in J BEL's new album. Those who remember Eotteonnal and Jang Pil-soon, those who hummed Jo Dong-jin and Deulgukhwa's 'Everyday With You', please respond.
- OhmyNews Entertainment Media OhmyStar Reporter Lee Seon-pil