Decadent (Decadent album)
{{Short description|2018 album by Decadent}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Decadent
| type = studio
| artist = Decadent
| cover = Cover of Decadent's album Decadent.png
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2018|5|30}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre = Indie rock, blues rock
| length = {{Duration|m=46|s=45}}
| language =
| label = Poclanos
| producer = Decadent
| prev_title = É
| prev_year = 2017
| next_title = Lingu / Talus
| next_year = 2019
| misc =
}}
Decadent is the first and only studio album by South Korean indie rock band Decadent. The album was released on 30 May 2018.{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Sohee |title=[이소희의 B레이더] 데카당 "우리의 음악, 한편의 영화처럼"|url=http://news.heraldcorp.com/culture/view.php?ud=201901251037408355263_1&md=_BL |access-date=2023-10-24 |work=Herald Corporation |date=2019-01-25 |language=ko}}
Background
After the band's EP É in 2017, they worked on their first studio album. The tracks Peter Parker (피터 파커) and Tomato Homicide (토마토 살인사건), which were decided to be excluded from the É tracks, were included in the album.{{cite news |title=밴드 '데카당'이 마침내 공개하는 대망의 데뷔 앨범 [데카당]|url=https://www.genie.co.kr/magazine/subMain?mgz_seq=5067 |access-date=2023-10-24 |work=Genie Music |language=ko}} The album is a concept album, and the album is divided into the first part of "Inside," where the speaker cuts himself off from the outside world where disease is prevalent, and the second part of "Outside," which the speaker, who has been observing the outside through the window inside, experiences and feels as he goes out.{{cite news |last1=Seo |first1=Jeongmingab |title=[서정민갑의 수요뮤직] 끈적이는 그루브로 자신과 세상을 향해 돌진하는 노래|url=https://www.vop.co.kr/A00001301341.html |access-date=2023-10-24|work=Voice of People |date=2018-06-21 |language=ko}} The first track on the album Disease (병) was made with a music video and was made in stop motion.{{cite news |last1=Choi |first1=Eunjae |title=인형으로 구축한 세계, 스톱모션 애니메이션 뮤비 셋|url=https://www.indiepost.co.kr/post/8263 |access-date=2023-10-24|work=Indiepost |date=2018-07-26 |language=ko}}
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Music Y
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |last1=Park |first1=Byeongwoon |url=http://www.musicy.kr/?c=review&s=1&gp=1&ob=idx&gbn=viewok&ix=6250|title=[2018 상반기, 필진별 결산 #1-5] 데카당 『Decadent』|website=Music Y|language=ko |date=2018-07-19 |access-date=2023-10-24}}
}}
Park Byeongwoon of Music Y described the album as "The spectacles that sometimes stir with brush strokes of progressive/experimental based on the black music." The member of the selection committee for the Korean Music Awards Lee Kyeongjoon reviewed, "Decadent is an album that breaks down the boundaries between rock and modern rock. It mixes post-punk, soul and jazz like illusions," and the album was nominated for Best Modern Rock Album of 2019.{{Cite web |url=https://koreanmusicawards.com/project/%eb%8d%b0%ec%b9%b4%eb%8b%b9-%eb%8d%b0%ec%b9%b4%eb%8b%b9/|title=데카당 [데카당]|website=Music Y|language=ko |access-date=2023-10-24}} Web magazine Tonplein described the Tomato Homicide (토마토 살인사건), the track of the album, as "the track that represents us in the South Korea where we live by suppressing the anger that we want to kill, smash, and overthrow everything, and faces the present of the country."{{Cite web |url=https://www.tonplein.com/?p=1469|title=온음 2018 총결산 : 선정 결과 공개|website=Ton Plein|language=ko |date=2019-03-10 |access-date=2023-10-24}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = Disease
| note1 = "병"
| length1 = 3:40
| title2 = Footnote
| note2 = "각주"
| length2 = 5:15
| title3 = La Tomatina
| note3 = "라 토마티나"
| length3 = 1:09
| title4 = Tomato Homicide
| note4 = "토마토 살인사건"
| length4 = 4:29
| title5 = Cromatic Sensatio
| note5 = "색채감각"
| length5 = 5:50
| title6 = Salome
| note6 = "살로메"
| length6 = 4:41
| title7 = Tonsure
| note7 = "삭발"
| length7 = 3:54
| title8 = The Window
| note8 = "창"
| length8 = 2:01
| title9 = Ausgang
| note9 = "외출"
| length9 = 2:42
| title10 = Spaziergang
| note10 = "산책"
| length10 = 2:46
| title11 = Peter Parker
| note11 = "피터 파커"
| length11 = 5:04
| title12 = B
| note12 =
| length12 = 5:14
}}
References
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Category:Decadent (band) albums