I was going through my youtube recommended when I saw this song, Flowering, and was intrigued since I had never heard of the group Lucy. Turns out, this is their debut track! I'm a bit late on this because the video was posted two weeks ago, but I absolutely love this song, so I had to write about it. I won't really talk about the video because it was just them playing their instruments for the most part.
Let's talk about Lucy, themselves. They are a four member band with Shin Yechan on violin, Choi Sangyeob on guitar and vocal, Jo Wonsang on bass and vocal (and production?!), and Shin Gwangil on drums and vocal. They were on a show called Super Band which was a show in 2019 that featured indie musicians that would compete and come together to form different bands. I have not watched the show but I think I will because I have really been getting into indie music. Also, if I could just hear more from this band and maybe find other bands with a really unique sound that would be pretty fucking epic. Maybe, I'll recap it, even though its like a year late.
Now, Flowering. It's so brilliant! There's a very clean sound to it that I have been craving with all of these kpop groups coming out with very hard hitting backbeats and constant EDM breaks. There really is just simple instrumentation, just four instruments and some editing. The production was top notch. There's ebbs and flows that makes a very smooth but engaging listen. It starts with the violin. Then it gradually builds with the addition of the vocals and guitar, followed by the addition of the drums and bass. Then it goes back down to vocals, violin, and what sounds like piano(?). Like what? This is so damn good. By going back down after that build, it keeps me wanting for that big climax. Then it builds again and of course drops before the chorus. Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopper, spectacular (I swear I am not being sarcastic. This is truly brilliant. I know I am misusing this meme). This sort of building and falling continues throughout the song creating a dynamic musical masterpiece.
I looked at the lyrics for this song and damn they are poetic as fuck. It talks about, I think, about remembering an old love and trying to move on from them. It talks about how they will remember the love as something beautiful and how they don't even remember all of the bad times. They constantly use imagery throughout like referring to the hard times as a "long night of winter solstice" and referring to moving on as the income of spring. These lyrics are absolutely perfect for spring with this imagery of winter melting into spring. Not only that but it matches the song itself perfectly as well. It really fits the sound and vibe. It's just beautiful.
I also want to talk about their track Intro, presumably for Flowering, which is also amazing. There are amazing dynamics and it builds and image in your head and feels like its telling a story. It starts with a train bell like sound then a sort of music box/celeste thing. It then builds to something that sounds very traditional, like it could be the background music to a historical drama. I can just visualize walking through an old-timey marketplace. After all the building and the gorgeous orchestration it drops to that music box. It feels like there's a storyline with a person on a train leaving and opening a music box, a memento, and remembering, what feels like, the good times they had, and then closing that music box. It fits so well with Flowering both in sound and with story. This whole idea of moving on with leaving on the train and reminiscing with the music box. It is just masterfully put together.
So, I am in love with this band. I also just saw that they came out with a sign language video for this song. That is so heartwarming and so considerate of them for them to include deaf and hard of hearing community. Like please stan them. They come out with such amazing music and are just sweethearts. I really adore them and I am so watching Super Band to see more of them. This song alone is just so beautiful in every aspect with the production and the lyrics and even though I didn't talk about it the video fits as well (the coloring and those imagery scenes) and the intro. Please, please check out Dear (the combination of Intro and Flowering). It's just so good, like I can't even put into words just how magical these songs are. So, I can not stress this enough, PLEASE CHECK OUT LUCY!!! So... Um... Yeah...
Let's talk about Lucy, themselves. They are a four member band with Shin Yechan on violin, Choi Sangyeob on guitar and vocal, Jo Wonsang on bass and vocal (and production?!), and Shin Gwangil on drums and vocal. They were on a show called Super Band which was a show in 2019 that featured indie musicians that would compete and come together to form different bands. I have not watched the show but I think I will because I have really been getting into indie music. Also, if I could just hear more from this band and maybe find other bands with a really unique sound that would be pretty fucking epic. Maybe, I'll recap it, even though its like a year late.
Now, Flowering. It's so brilliant! There's a very clean sound to it that I have been craving with all of these kpop groups coming out with very hard hitting backbeats and constant EDM breaks. There really is just simple instrumentation, just four instruments and some editing. The production was top notch. There's ebbs and flows that makes a very smooth but engaging listen. It starts with the violin. Then it gradually builds with the addition of the vocals and guitar, followed by the addition of the drums and bass. Then it goes back down to vocals, violin, and what sounds like piano(?). Like what? This is so damn good. By going back down after that build, it keeps me wanting for that big climax. Then it builds again and of course drops before the chorus. Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopper, spectacular (I swear I am not being sarcastic. This is truly brilliant. I know I am misusing this meme). This sort of building and falling continues throughout the song creating a dynamic musical masterpiece.
I looked at the lyrics for this song and damn they are poetic as fuck. It talks about, I think, about remembering an old love and trying to move on from them. It talks about how they will remember the love as something beautiful and how they don't even remember all of the bad times. They constantly use imagery throughout like referring to the hard times as a "long night of winter solstice" and referring to moving on as the income of spring. These lyrics are absolutely perfect for spring with this imagery of winter melting into spring. Not only that but it matches the song itself perfectly as well. It really fits the sound and vibe. It's just beautiful.
I also want to talk about their track Intro, presumably for Flowering, which is also amazing. There are amazing dynamics and it builds and image in your head and feels like its telling a story. It starts with a train bell like sound then a sort of music box/celeste thing. It then builds to something that sounds very traditional, like it could be the background music to a historical drama. I can just visualize walking through an old-timey marketplace. After all the building and the gorgeous orchestration it drops to that music box. It feels like there's a storyline with a person on a train leaving and opening a music box, a memento, and remembering, what feels like, the good times they had, and then closing that music box. It fits so well with Flowering both in sound and with story. This whole idea of moving on with leaving on the train and reminiscing with the music box. It is just masterfully put together.
So, I am in love with this band. I also just saw that they came out with a sign language video for this song. That is so heartwarming and so considerate of them for them to include deaf and hard of hearing community. Like please stan them. They come out with such amazing music and are just sweethearts. I really adore them and I am so watching Super Band to see more of them. This song alone is just so beautiful in every aspect with the production and the lyrics and even though I didn't talk about it the video fits as well (the coloring and those imagery scenes) and the intro. Please, please check out Dear (the combination of Intro and Flowering). It's just so good, like I can't even put into words just how magical these songs are. So, I can not stress this enough, PLEASE CHECK OUT LUCY!!! So... Um... Yeah...
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