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| Stuart Berman and crew celebrate the release of The 15th at The Horseshoe opening for Spiral Stairs Sunday at 7:30 pm. |
The only band in music history to open for Wire, call Mac DeMarco a labelmate for about two weeks, and play an in-store at the Eaton Centre Hot Topic, The Two Koreas mark 15 years of sporadic existence the only way they know how: with an egregious display of self-aggrandizement and cheap sentiment.
The 15th: A Revisionist History of The Two Koreas (out now) does just what it says in the pixelated print on the thumbnail: compile and reshuffle 15 neglected back-catalogue castaways to create the illusion that Toronto’s preeminent practitioners of electric jangular beat muzik have just released 2019’s most vital new rock ‘n’ roll record.
The 15th collects several Dan Burke-certified 2Ks klassix, some seriously slept-on deep cuts, radio sessions, and previously unreleased live material as if the botched MySpace server migration never happened. It’s the perfect Two Koreas album no matter if your knee-jerk reaction is “who the fuck are these guys?” or “are those dudes actually still around?”
