music

Rock
Korean
Indie - Rock

Music like Glen Check

Glen Check

Glen Check

5/5

Glen Check is a South Korean indie band, consisting of singer and guitar player June-One Kim and bass and synthesizer player Hyuk-Jun Kang. They debuted in February 2011 with the release of Disco Elevator EP and were joined by drummer Jeon-Yeol Ryu for their first full album, Haute Couture, which was released in February 2012. Ryu left the group later that year, and (once again a duo) Glen Check released the five-track EP Cliché that September. In November 2013, a sophomore album was released, called Youth! In August 2017, the band released a new five-track EP called The Glen Check Experience. The band has also released several remix EPs.

Kim and Kang first met while attending high school together and after graduating, they formed a band called The Closure. Soon after though, they decided to take a different approach to their music, which Kim has described as having been "quiet and boring". They changed the band's name to Glen Check, after reading the term in a fashion book. Both Kim and Kang grew up outside of Korea. The lyrics to their songs are in English. While the duo have cited Western music as being an influence on them, they were also inspired by African music and traditional Korean music on their album Haute Couture. For Cliché, they looked to funk and disco music from the 1970s and 1980s for their inspiration. Many different genres have been used to describe their music, including electropop, electro-rock, synthrock and indie-dance-pop. The duo has said that they do not want their sound to be limited though, and that they plan to experiment in many different styles. The band places an emphasis on the visual aspects of their live shows and have been noted for their stage design. Glen Check and its crew of collaborators are collectively known as The Basement Resistance.

Picture of a musician: Glen Check

Filter by:

Cross-category suggestions

Filter by:

Filter by:

Filter by:

Filter by:

Filter by:

Filter by:

Filter by: