KORINE - Tear

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KORINE
Tear LP/CD (2023)

A1. Mt. Airy
A2. Burn The World
A3. Lost In The Dark
A4. Chimera
A5. Crystalline
B1. Deicide
B2. Train To Harlem
B3. Dream Dancer
B4. The More I Try
B5. Forevermore

Korine is a Philadelphia based duo consisting of members Morgy Ramone and Trey Frye.
The pair blends new wave nostalgia, early emo and punk with a modern pop sensibility, contrasting upbeat rhythms against sullen, emotionally evocative lyrics.
Forming in late 2017, the duo’s first EP Corsage gained the band quick traction and a series of tour dates through 2018 which led to the release of the debut album New Arrangements. In 2020 the following sophomore album The Night We Raise heavily expanded the signature sound of the group while continuing to showcase the pair’s DIY mentality and receiving praise from Bandcamp, Post-punk.com, and Pop Matters. Following a year of isolation, Korine returned to touring supporting chillwave pioneers Small Black and made their international debut appearing at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig in 2022.
Tear is the band’s third full-length and definitely their best one to date.
While the style stays the same we’ve come to love, the sound is more seductive than ever, with deep bass lines resounding under throbbing synth riffs, while mechanical beats will make you dance in the dark and romantic hooks will take place in your head never to leave again.
There’s some sort of teenage majesty in the duo’s capacity for just great, classic but strongly 90’s- fueled alternative pop hooks that leaves us divinely unarmed.

RIYL: Cold Cave, Lust For Youth, Soft Kill.
Tear is out worldwide on February 17.

Vinyl LP will ship in Europe starting February 28.
4-panel digipak CD limited to 250 will ship end of March 2023.

PLEASE NOTE!

USA customers please order via Korine or Born Losers Records.