Description
Sister’s Barbershop Vol. 5, The Most Ordinary Existence, is the fifth studio album from one of Korea’s defining modern rock bands, released on the Blueboy label. The band spent three years making it, and the album tells one continuous story about the moment of realizing you are not special after all. It is a natural pick for fans of Korean indie and modern rock, and for any listener who likes an album that plays like a single story.
Why This One
- Completed over a total of 3 years, with hundreds of rounds of rework: every track was refined long after its debut on stage.
- Reworked for 8 months after the album launch concert: the final recording is a more finished version of the material.
- Fifth album from the band behind the 3rd album Dream’s Pop Song, a record-breaking hit in Korean indie history: it continues the catalog of one of Korea’s key modern rock acts.
Key Features
- Full-length fifth album from Sister’s Barbershop. The band’s 3rd album, Dream’s Pop Song, made indie history, and their 4th, Believe in the Moment, brought them mainstream success.
- The band describes it as a work that needs no genre label. It is music on record, but visual enough to feel like a film or drama and narrative enough to read like a novel.
- The concept grew out of an event that brought the chilling realization of not being special at all.
- Each track captures the scenes and stories of a person who has become ordinary in a dazzling world: what they think, what they go through, and how they keep living.
- The band describes it as a finished work that feels like a new beginning, made after staking everything on it for four years.
Specifications
| Artist | Sister’s Barbershop |
|---|---|
| Album | Vol. 5 – The Most Ordinary Existence |
| Label | Blueboy |
| Genre | Korean Modern Rock / Indie |
| Release Date | August 8, 2008 |
