์ธ๋ จ๋ ์ผ๋ ํธ๋ก๋์ ์ ๋ณด์ด๋ โ๋ฌ๋ธ์์คํ ๋ ์คโ๋ 2012๋ โSoul City (Seoul City)โ๋ผ๋ ๊ณก์ ๋ฐํ, ๊ทธ ์ด๋ฌํด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด์์์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ์์ ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ ์ค ํ๋์ธ CMJ๋ฎค์ง๋ง๋ผํค์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋น๋นํ๊ฒ ์ด์ฒญ ๋ฐ์ ์ต์ด์ ํ๊ตญ ๋ฝ ๋ฐด๋๋ก ์ด๋ฆ์ ์๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ํต์ฐ ์ธ ์ฐจ๋ก์ ๋ถ๋ฏธ ํฌ์ด์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ฐ์ค๋ฐ์ด์ฌ์ฐ์ค์จ์คํธ ๋ฑ ์ ์ ํด์ธ ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ ์ฐธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ทธ ์ค๋ ฅ์ ๊ฒ์ฆ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ํ๊ณก โHide and Seekโ์ด tvN๋๋ผ๋ง โ์น์ฆ์ธ๋ํธ๋ฉโ์ ์ฝ์ ๋์ด ์ด๋ชฉ์ ๋์๋ค. 90๋ ๋ ์ผํฐ๋ํฐ๋ธ ๊ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ ํธ๋ก๋์ ์์๋ค์ ๊ฒฐํฉํ์ฌ 21์ธ๊ธฐํ ์ ์ ์์ ์ ๊ตฌ์ฌํ๋ 2์ธ์กฐ ๋ฝ ๋ฐด๋๋ก, ํนํ ๋ผ์ด๋ธ ๋ฌด๋์์ ํน์ ์ ๋ชฝํ์ ์ธ ๋๋๋ค์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ฐ, ๊ตญ๋ด์ธ ํ๋จ์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ์ข์ ํ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค. ์๋ก ์ฐ๊ด์ฑ์ด ์๋ 37๊ฐ์ ๊ณก๋ค์ ํ๋ ์ด๋ฆฌ์คํธ์ฒ๋ผ ์์๋ด๋ ์ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๋ ํ ํ๋ก์ ํธ [37]์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋์ด, ์ด๋ก์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ท์จ๋ฒ์ 2017๋ ๊ณผ 2019๋ ์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 2์ฅ์ฉ ๋ชจ๋ 4์ฅ ๋ฐ๋งคํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ์๋ ๋ทํ๋ฆญ์ค ์ค๋ฆฌ์ง๋์๋ฆฌ์ฆ โ์ข์ํ๋ฉด ์ธ๋ฆฌ๋โ์ ํ์ดํ๊ณก์ผ๋ก ์ฐธ์ฌํ ๋ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, 2021๋ 1์ ์ธ๊ณ ์ต๋ ์์ ๋ฐ๋ํ์ธ ๋จ์ผ(NAMM Show)๋ก๋ถํฐ ์ด์ฒญ์ ๋ฐ์ ํ๊ตญ ๋ํ๋ก Believe in Music Week ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ์ ํตํด ์ ์จ๋ฒ โXennialsโ๋ฅผ ์ต์ด ๊ณต๊ฐํ๋ค.
Launched in 2011 by former skate punk rocker Toby Hwang and fugitive astrophysicist Annie Ko, Love X Stereo is a dazzling Seoul electro rock duo whose dreamy kaleidoscope of stellar synthpop anthems have enraptured music festival audiences across Asia, Europe, and North America. With the epic release of their double EP series โWe Love We Leaveโ in 2016, Love X Stereo headlined at SXSWโs perennially packed โK-Pop Night Outโ showcase, and nabbed a best electronic dance album of the year nomination at the 2017 Korean Music Awards. Accruing artist spotlights and rave reviews in international media outlets such as BBC, Billboard Magazine, and MTV, the critically acclaimed band eschewed the traditional album release routine from 2017 to 2019 and embarked on an ambitious fan-funded project that spawned 37 music video tracks as well as collaborated on original soundtracks for the smash hit Netflix Korea TV series โLove Alarmโ and award-winning indie short film โZero Oneโ. To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Love X Stereo world premiered their new album โXennialsโ at the NAMM Believe in Music Week in January 2021.
// REVIEWS //
โBeginning with a cut of Annie Ko singing breathily about the end of love over mellow, rollicking beats, the song is an ambient ode to the hardships associated with romance.โ
โ Billboard โLove X Stereo Releases ‘Zero One’ Music Video: Watchโโ
“Winning, spiky, dance-pop” โ Wall Street Journal โGlobalization With an โ80s Beatโ
โLove X Stereo is the band K-Pop Night Out was made for, an act that international listeners would be open to if they knew it existed.โย โ PageSix โEven the Korean government is at SXSWโ
โAnnie Ko’s cotton-candy voice is light and fluffy, the perfect match to Toby Hwang’s pastel fever dream production.โ โ Billboard โ10 Best Dance Songs About Kissingโ
โ[Love X Stereo] blew us away with their infectious electronic rock sound. Their sound is packed with spaced out synths, shimmering guitars, and dreamy female vocals.โย โ BitCandy โSXSW 2016: Best Artists Day 4โ
โFrontwoman Annie Ko possesses a girlish, fairytale whisper that lends itself to CHVRCHES comparisons. But while the Scottish band floats like an electronic butterfly, Love X Stereo stings like a rock โnโ roll bee.โ โ MTV Iggy โLove X Stereo = Delicious Electro Rock From Seoulโ
โLove X Stereo are quite frankly and criminally underrated considering the quality of music that they make.โ
โ Metro.co.uk โArtist of the day 13/06: Love X Stereoโ
โThey may draw from the sound of alt and punk rock from the 90โs, but with a modernized electronic production and lead singer Annieโs powerful, yet girly voice, Love X Stereo has a sound thatโs all their own.โ โ SXSW South By Southwest โFour On The Floor: Bands With Seoul (Part One)โ
// AWARDS & HONORS //
2018 Canada International Film Festival (Best Music Video [Rage Is Not Enough])
2017 Girona Film Festival (Best Music Video – Nominee)
2017 Korean Music Awards (Best Dance & Electronic Album of the Year – Nominee)
2014 Korea Creative Content Agency (K-Rookies Annual Finals: Runner-Up)
2014 Korea Creative Content Agency (K-Rookies Monthly Competition: Winner)
// INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS // ย
2021 NAMM Believe in Music (Global Livestream)
2019 Ubud Food Festival (Bali ID)
2018 Reeperbahn Festival (Hamburg DE)
2018 APaMM (Ulsan KR)
2018 Baybeats (Singapore SG)
2017 FOCUS Wales (Wrexham UK)
2016 Pentaport Rock Festival (Incheon KR)
2016 KCON LA (Los Angeles CA)
2016 SXSW South By Southwest (Austin TX)
2015 Vans New Wave Musicfest (Bangalore IN)
2015 Mu:Con (Seoul KR)
2015 Canadian Music Week (Toronto ON)
2014 CMJ Music Marathon (New York NY)
2014 Culture Collide (San Francisco/Los Angeles CA)
2014 Hyundai Card CityBreak (Seoul KR)
2014 Ultra Music Festival (Seoul KR)
2014 Music Matters Live (Singapore SG)
2014 CAAMfest (San Francisco CA)
2014 SXSW South By Southwest (Austin TX)
2013 CMJ Music Marathon (New York NY)
2013 Indieweek Canada (Toronto ON)
2012 Jisan Valley Rock Festival (Gyeonggi-do KR)
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