*Limited edition of 500 copies, Czech pressing
*180g opaque pink color board, gatefold cover
*Vinyl mastering Lee Jae-soo (Sonority mastering)
*Liner notes by popular music critic Cha Woo-jin A

heart that loves loneliness | Sinmorae x Glam Gould - Dear. J
/ Cha Woo-jin, music critic

Listening to music is like going somewhere for a while. The charm of this short walk is that you don't know where it is until you set off. Sometimes it's a vast plain, sometimes it's the entrance to a foggy village. When the music starts, we're somewhere else in an instant. 'Quickly' is the key. We are not ready to leave. As soon as you come into contact with music, you arrive there before you know it.

The place where Glam Gould's music leads is like a forest. There is a slight tension and comfort in the soundscape that follows the minimal beat. With a little goosebumps, I wandered around following the sound. Exit the forest, cross the field, and pass through the cave. Pieces of light shattering after touching the surface of the water, being sucked into them, come out into a small room without realizing it.

Then I suddenly realize Music is definitely sound. Sound is a physical phenomenon. is the vibration of the air. However, what those sounds and notes touch is not the auditory cells, but somewhere, an unknown place that science has yet to reach. There resides the senses that the mind calls memories and illusions. Beats and noise carefully tuned with an equalizer, and the landscape of sound sparsely drawn in between them lead us there. For some, Glam Gould's music may be a dawning city or a country road in the fog. On the way we are alone The important thing is the feeling of being 'alone'. Loneliness hidden in a peaceful and beautiful landscape. And now I'll tell you about that loneliness.

The songs on the album become increasingly minimal. As if he decided to become thinner, he throws away and erases things that are cumbersome. And finally, what remains, at least to me, is a sense of loneliness. In this album full of diverse landscapes, I find some kind of loneliness. and realize This is the mark of a person who loves loneliness. It is a mind that dares to find the loneliness that has sunk while crouching somewhere in a peaceful moment of everyday life. It is the music of a man who has finally decided to love that sensation.

This world is a place where everyone is endlessly satisfied and happy, and wants to pity himself endlessly. Here, loneliness becomes a charm, a concept, and another name for self-love. Instagram is full of people who indulge loneliness as much as pleasure. In this world dominated by indulgence, the heart that pursues love becomes an alternative. Indulgence is the mind of those who do not want to lose anything, but love is the mind of risking something. So dangerous. In this way, the heart that loves loneliness makes you see the other side of the tilted world that only exists outside yourself.

It is also here that the artwork of artist Morae Shin and the music of Glam Gould meet. Shin Morae's neon and pink colors are neither flashy nor beautiful. It's just gloomy and lonely. comfortable nonetheless comfortable and free He paints the atmosphere. So I think he is a person who loves loneliness. The heart that decides to love loneliness is to cut out this and that sense that is clumsy. It is to leave only the more essential things. Writer Shin Mo-rae and Glam Gould find and caress the loneliness in the fullness of everyday life.

This album is 'Dear. It is a long letter beginning with J'. It doesn't matter who J is. Just as soon as we hear this letter or music, we move to a certain place in an instant. It is a place for people who have decided to love loneliness. Here, we embrace each other's loneliness as best we can.

Music Produced by Glam Gould
Mixed by Glam Gould
Mastered by Jaesoo Yi (Sonority Mastering)
Cover Art by Shin Morae
Design by YP

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