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An alternative rock band named after a Jodie Foster film, with a gloomy, psychedelic sound that critics love. Put on "Stay", turn off the lights, and be ready to feel everything.

Members

3

Debut

2001 (25 years)

Generation

1st gen (until 2003)

Label

Space Bohemian

Start with: Stay

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Achievements

• Third album Healing Process was chosen as one of five best recordings of the year by South Korean critics
• Fourth album Separation Anxiety ranked number one on various real-time album charts
• Slip Away (2012) topped real-time charts on Mnet, Bugs and Olleh Music
• Newton's Apple ranked number two on Billboard's 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2014
• Performed at the K-Pop Night Out at SXSW in Austin (2014)

Timeline

1. 1999Formed by four students who had failed the college entrance exam
2. 2001Two indie rock albums, Reflection of and Speechless
3. 2002First band on Goesoo Indigene, a subsidiary of Seo Taiji Company
4. 2006Join Woollim Entertainment; play the Pentaport Rock Festival in 2006 and 2007
5. 2012Fifth album Slip Away with "The Day Before"; Holding onto Gravity in December
6. 2013Japanese debut in January; mini-album Escaping Gravity with "Ocean of Light"
7. 2014Play SXSW; Newton's Apple named number two on Billboard's best of the year
8. 2016Set up the independent label Space Bohemian and release the album C with "Dream Catcher"

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