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February 25th, 2020 10:07pm

My Heart Is Like Yesterday


Hyukoh “Flat Dog”

“Flat Dog” starts off sounding like a chugging but glossy blues rock number along the lines of The Black Keys but with Korean lyrics but by the time the first verse is through the implied scale of the piece seems to expand exponentially. It sounds cosmic but also very Beatlesque, like something a young George Harrison might have come up with if he had swapped places with Eric Clapton in Cream. Oh Hyuk’s sensibility may be a lot more rock and retro than his colleagues in the K-Pop world but there’s still a sort formal kinship here in the way he’s scrambling decades of pop music history, cherry-picking the coolest moves, and putting it all back together in a way that feels just a bit off. It’s a funny balance of studio nerd obsessive reverence and a total irreverent approach to the context of it all.

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