"I don't want to do it anymore / don't want to smile through your prejudices..."
Listening to the fun punches and twisty turns of "Bad Apple" by Seoul based three piece indie rock / punk outfit Sailor Honeymoon and I smiled wildly while thinking of random things that popped in my head. Random things like feminist punk, like Bikini Kill back in the day and curious things too like Rhian Teasdale reading "If I Had Your Face" by Frances Cha.
From Liner Notes (bracketed):
[Today, the trio follow up with Bad Apple, a track written about an ugly vibe within the friendship group.. The track will form part of the all-girl outfit’s self-titled debut EP, announced today for release May 3rd. The 8-track project was tracked live over a week in London by producer Luke Smith (Foals, Depeche, Shura) and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Parquet Courts, Temples). The track is accompanied by a surrealist Kim Taeyoung-directed visual starring the band.]
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[“Sailor Honeymoon” was born as a collaboration between photographer Abi Raymaker 장인화 and techno DJ Zaeeun Shin 신재은. Their vision was realized at jams with other friends in a shared practice room where their noisy loose improvisation was charged with chemistry, a small act of rebellion in a country where pop culture encourages artists to be flawless and pristine. The spontaneity of the project leads Sailor Honeymoon to do things like swapping instruments when jamming and calling all their female fans onstage at shows, earning them a growing reputation in Seoul's music scene.]
[Of the track, Raymaker says “Bad Apple is about realizing one of your friends is kind of a closeted bigot… thinking back on revealing little comments that make you realize you don’t share values. Not just for yourself but also for the sake of your other friends (who they were always judging) you make the decision to move on from them as a friend.”]
[Of the track, Raymaker says “Bad Apple is about realizing one of your friends is kind of a closeted bigot… thinking back on revealing little comments that make you realize you don’t share values. Not just for yourself but also for the sake of your other friends (who they were always judging) you make the decision to move on from them as a friend.”]
I dig the shouty approach on "Bad Apple" and ramping up jam. Those guitars sound bad ass a lovely diversion for a track that could have taken a more pop punk approach but didn't. I also love how the track is actually about something, the kind of thing that can run shallow or run exquisitely deep, can infect a distant relative or infect a generation of people. Bigotry is a terrible disease, condition with no easy vaccine so discussions about it and jumping off points like "Bad Apple" are important, just like safe spaces.
Cool stuff. I admit that this is my first listen of Sailor Honeymoon but it will not be my last.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
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Korean punk band Sailor Honeymoon return with Bad Apple, another infectious offering of fuzzy punk designed to challenge the meticulously manufactured music of their homeland.
The Seoul-based 3-piece burst onto the scene in May last year with their explosive debut single “Cockroach” which came out via new the Seoul-via-London label Good Good 굿굿 Records.
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