Shoreline - 05.05.2024
Description
SHORELINE
Support: Catapults, Nothing Works
DATUM: 05.05.2024
STILRICHTUNG: Hardcore/Punk
Einlass: 19.00 Uhr
Beginn: 20.00 Uhr
With TO FIGURE OUT, SHORELINE release their third album, which is characterised above all by its musical superposition: a stringent emo/hardcore record that simultaneously contains experimental, fast disco tracks with influences from contemporary pop music.
With their previous records YOU USED TO BE A SAFE PLACE (EP, Uncle M Music 2018), EAT MY SOUL (LP, 2019, Uncle M Music) and GROWTH (LP, 2022, END HITS RECORDS), the band had already released a body of work in their mid-twenties. Nevertheless, their new record TO FIGURE OUT feels like a completely new chapter: After a change of members, it is the first album that the band has written together in their new combo. Mixed and co-produced by Chris Teti (most recently also Fiddlehead, Anxious) and mastered by Kris Crummett (Knuckle Puck, Real Friends), Shoreline operate in the unique field of tension between the new US emo/hardcore wave and their European pop music influences.
Since 2016, SHORELINE have been touring non-stop as support for a number of scene icons such as BASEMENT, SILVERSTEIN, BOSTON MANOR, KNOCKED LOOSE, SPANISH LOVE SONGS and many more and have recently signed with US label heavyweight PURE NOISE RECORDS.
Singer Hansol Seung comments on the record as follows:
"There's this cliché that says the third record is the hardest for a band, I've read that a hundred times in interviews or magazines. I disagree with that. It feels like our first record, everything is new, exciting and fresh. TO FIGURE OUT is a collection of songs that all have one thing in common: everything is a process. I love that the themes on the album are so diverse - there are songs about my journey to better understand my Korean roots, a lot of political anger and commentary on the climate crisis, and just love songs." The singles show a good cross-section of the album's themes:
The band announced the album with their single SEOUL, a dynamic, heavy rock anthem in which singer Hansol Seung reflects on his experiences as an Asian in Europe from a different perspective than on the previous album. Where the song KONICHIWA from the second album GROWTH was still an aggressive and angry response to racism, SEOUL shows much more the personal process of coming to terms with one's own internalised prejudices and growing out of the stereotypes given to Asians in Western countries. "My feelings about my origin and my appearance have changed a lot in the last three years. For a long time, I wished that I just looked like all my friends and that I wasn't always the ONE Asian. After getting to know more and more Asians in my environment and their stories over the last few years, I've become much more relaxed, but above all more self-confident." The song quotes the album title accordingly: "can you figure out how to get rid of the wish to be someone else?".
DARIUS is a fast, heavy hardcore track and the heaviest SHORELINE song to date. The song is a reflection on what it means to be a "professional" band and how the relationship between artists and their art changes over time. "When we started the band, we were all about playing live as much as possible. To make the music, just to make music. It was very strange to see and experience how the music industry works and how people treat you based on numbers and any successes. Now that we've been doing this for a few years, I realise I'm starting to think the same way. If a show doesn't sell out straight away or any numbers and sales aren't as high as expected, then I'm immediately a bit crestfallen.
DARIUS reminds me to cherish the experiences we've had with the band and to be proud of what we've been able to do. The song is named after a good friend who we played so many "bad" DIY European shows with in our early 20s, and looking back it was the best time. " "With the sound of an empty hall your words become bigger. If it was just you and I - you'd still play, you'd still stay"
The album artwork contains a poem that beautifully expands on the title:
YOU CAN BE DESPERATE AND HOPEFUL AT THE SAME TIME
YOU DON'T NEED TO HAVE AN IMMEDIATE SOLUTION
YOU HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT
YOU WILL FIGURE IT OUT
Support: Catapults, Nothing Works
DATUM: 05.05.2024
STILRICHTUNG: Hardcore/Punk
Einlass: 19.00 Uhr
Beginn: 20.00 Uhr
With TO FIGURE OUT, SHORELINE release their third album, which is characterised above all by its musical superposition: a stringent emo/hardcore record that simultaneously contains experimental, fast disco tracks with influences from contemporary pop music.
With their previous records YOU USED TO BE A SAFE PLACE (EP, Uncle M Music 2018), EAT MY SOUL (LP, 2019, Uncle M Music) and GROWTH (LP, 2022, END HITS RECORDS), the band had already released a body of work in their mid-twenties. Nevertheless, their new record TO FIGURE OUT feels like a completely new chapter: After a change of members, it is the first album that the band has written together in their new combo. Mixed and co-produced by Chris Teti (most recently also Fiddlehead, Anxious) and mastered by Kris Crummett (Knuckle Puck, Real Friends), Shoreline operate in the unique field of tension between the new US emo/hardcore wave and their European pop music influences.
Since 2016, SHORELINE have been touring non-stop as support for a number of scene icons such as BASEMENT, SILVERSTEIN, BOSTON MANOR, KNOCKED LOOSE, SPANISH LOVE SONGS and many more and have recently signed with US label heavyweight PURE NOISE RECORDS.
Singer Hansol Seung comments on the record as follows:
"There's this cliché that says the third record is the hardest for a band, I've read that a hundred times in interviews or magazines. I disagree with that. It feels like our first record, everything is new, exciting and fresh. TO FIGURE OUT is a collection of songs that all have one thing in common: everything is a process. I love that the themes on the album are so diverse - there are songs about my journey to better understand my Korean roots, a lot of political anger and commentary on the climate crisis, and just love songs." The singles show a good cross-section of the album's themes:
The band announced the album with their single SEOUL, a dynamic, heavy rock anthem in which singer Hansol Seung reflects on his experiences as an Asian in Europe from a different perspective than on the previous album. Where the song KONICHIWA from the second album GROWTH was still an aggressive and angry response to racism, SEOUL shows much more the personal process of coming to terms with one's own internalised prejudices and growing out of the stereotypes given to Asians in Western countries. "My feelings about my origin and my appearance have changed a lot in the last three years. For a long time, I wished that I just looked like all my friends and that I wasn't always the ONE Asian. After getting to know more and more Asians in my environment and their stories over the last few years, I've become much more relaxed, but above all more self-confident." The song quotes the album title accordingly: "can you figure out how to get rid of the wish to be someone else?".
DARIUS is a fast, heavy hardcore track and the heaviest SHORELINE song to date. The song is a reflection on what it means to be a "professional" band and how the relationship between artists and their art changes over time. "When we started the band, we were all about playing live as much as possible. To make the music, just to make music. It was very strange to see and experience how the music industry works and how people treat you based on numbers and any successes. Now that we've been doing this for a few years, I realise I'm starting to think the same way. If a show doesn't sell out straight away or any numbers and sales aren't as high as expected, then I'm immediately a bit crestfallen.
DARIUS reminds me to cherish the experiences we've had with the band and to be proud of what we've been able to do. The song is named after a good friend who we played so many "bad" DIY European shows with in our early 20s, and looking back it was the best time. " "With the sound of an empty hall your words become bigger. If it was just you and I - you'd still play, you'd still stay"
The album artwork contains a poem that beautifully expands on the title:
YOU CAN BE DESPERATE AND HOPEFUL AT THE SAME TIME
YOU DON'T NEED TO HAVE AN IMMEDIATE SOLUTION
YOU HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT
YOU WILL FIGURE IT OUT
| Konzert: | Shoreline |
| Support: | Catapults, Nothing Works |
| Date: | 05.05.2024 |
| Venue: | Cassiopeia |
| City: | Berlin |
| Genre: | Hardcore/Punk |
