By staying true to themselves, Busan's SaySueMe – South Korea's best indie band – have forged their own sound inside their own scene. Read our conversation with the group about their upcoming album 'The Last Thing Left.'
, the band — which now consists of Kim, 37; Choi; drummer Sungwan Lim, 34; and bassist Jaeyoung Kim, 25 — continue to refine their unassuming rock music, adding a more nuanced emotional heft to their songs than ever before. “The feelings for this album are inexplicably deep,” Choi says.
Naturally, Choi’s lyrics hit hardest when she’s resoundingly self-aware. “Why do I doubt everything to just be me?” she sings on “Still Here,” a track whose ambling pace and doo-wop-ish melodies echo Yo La Tengo at their most melancholy and down-home. The more upbeat songs contain small revelations, too. On the jangly “Around You,” Choi is frustrated and static, feeling the weight of getting older while spending so much of life in her bedroom. “I’ll be better when I’m around you,” she declares.
That can partly explain why her lyrics are so frank. The most challenging song for Choi to write was “Photo of You,” which came after original bassist Jaeyoung Ha left the band — the remaining bandmates prefer not to get into specifics. She notes that the song wasn’t explicitly meant for him or to be about him, but about loss and the horror of severed relationships.
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