TRISS - Time Is Now ‌| A SUPERZOOM LIVE

Time is Now

Feels like we`re running running out of time
We are talking too much talking ourselves to die
You`re not my enemy holding my ground
We`ve been marching ourselves to the ground  where we won`t lie

Hard times beating us outside We`re much better
Hot tide keeping us outside We`re much better now
We`re much better than you

Keep it to yourself and I`ll keep mine to myself Until we can show some respect
Show me what you have and I`ll show you what I have like a civilized animal
Sometimes when everything goes south
It`s not fair It’s not fair yeah

TRISS 1st EP

SCIENCE AND FANTASY

TRISS, alternative synth pop band will drive you into the sci-fi world
 
[ TRISS ] is an alternative synth pop/rock band from South Korea strongly inspired by 80’s synth sound and sci-fi movies. Vocal ‘Hyun Duk, Yang’ who is also the composer of [ TRISS ], takes influence from famous sound tracks of 80s and 90s sci-fi movies to produce his music. Rest of the rock oriented performers combined with retrospective style is unique. Despite of their nationality, most of their music is written in english by the composer, Hyun Duk, who has spent most of his childhood in America.
 
Playing live in Hong Dae(Korean indie music scene) for just about a year, [TRISS] is one of the hottest rising band. Since their first debut single [Ice cream], they have released 3 single albums and have won couple of most intense indie music auditions in Korea such as ‘2017 KT&G Band discovery’ and ‘2017 Busan rock festival competition Burock’. Now they are ready to release the first result of their musical experiment

1st EP “Science and Fantasy”
the album as a whole makes you feel adventurous as if you are watching a sci-fi movie
Launching from the earth with the spirit of resistance, the first track [Come into life] sends out message to all the minorities in the space to come back to life. Caught up in a war between [Science and fantasy] they speed up through the worm hole singing  [Chasing star] hoping to find a new world. Listening to their fourth track [Body and soul], they find true love in a space station. Achieving victory by singing [Breaking star] the journey finally comes to an end.
“space crew should be able to fix their space ship on their own” the reason why they wear ‘engineer like’ outfit lets you take a glimpse of their delightful attitude.

‌ COME INTO LIFE

[Come into life] is a song that will make you feel like a rocket departing from a launch pad.  ‘It sounds like a common k-pop song’ is the first thing that comes into mind. Then the track quickly jumps into a retro synth sound shattering your pre-held expectations. The Sci-fi movie inspired synth arpeggiator with a message of resistance from the first track shows it’s ambition for the adventure yet to come.
 

‌SCIENCE AND FANTASY

‘Science and fantasy’ is a rather instinctive song which leads the listener not to only enjoy but actually feel the music. It comes to a conclusion where maybe that is the whole point of the song. The world we live in is so well developed and people are also very well-being, well-made, and at times too smart. No more immature childish fantasies are welcomed. Efficiency and logic seems to rule over us in all aspects of life. But maybe the song is telling us that perhaps we humans can achieve both immature purity and solid logicality when we hold on to each other. The basic purpose of human beings, interaction between one another. Maybe that is the way to keep us, mankind. Staying right between science and fantasy where we can truly be ourselves and be humane but at the same time enjoy the gift of the nature, knowledge, and technology.
The way the song transits through different forms builds interesting feelings for listeners. The song’s commanding vocal and chorus calling “Blood and soul!” makes listeners to want not to be left behind but it ends with rather optimistic renouncement singing “so let the lightning take us all”, leaving the listener in outer space drifting and floating towards nowhere.

‌CHASING STAR

[Chasing star] is an unabashed throwback to the 80s synth pop era. The rhythm and synth bass in the verse and chorus is very retrospective. But the song never goes too far off from the band’s unique identity. The rhythm repeatedly builds up and stops making listeners to hesitate to dance but that is what makes the song classy. The way the song transit through different forms leaves interesting feeling to listeners.

‌B‌ODY AND SOUL
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4th and the only love song of the album, [Body and soul] is a electronic pop song. The song is relaxed and calm and the melody is easy to sing along. [Body and soul] is definitely the song that you will stick in your head for a while. The song’s Commanding vocal and chorus shouting “Blood and soul!” makes listeners to want not to be left behind but it ends with rather optimistic renouncement singing “so let the lightning take us all”, leaving the listener in the outer space drifting and floating towards nowhere.

‌BREAKING STAR

‌“who do you think we are?” “we are breaking star” as you can sense from these lyrics, [Breaking star] is victorious. It’s a grand finale of the album. Exploding synth sound and the chorus screaming “yeah!”, this song is a ceremony of the band celebrating the first victory they achieved through their first album.