By Jon Dunbar
A brand new hardcore punk band in Seoul is already ready for failure, and that is not a nasty factor.
The five-member band, named Fail Quick, has performed three exhibits thus far and launched a three-song album titled “The Ready Not Scared EP” plus a music video — and thus far failure is not on the horizon.
They get their identify from a enterprise administration idea, one which encourages a trial-and-error course of and that does not punish workers for his or her inevitable errors.
“The concept behind the time period ‘Fail Quick’ is to check out new issues with out making an attempt to be excellent and studying rapidly out of your errors as you go,” Kevin Loesken, the band’s frontman, informed The Korea Instances. “I really feel like there are too many bands round which can be doing nothing as a result of they’re ready for the appropriate timing or the proper tune or no matter, and I do not need this band to try this. If we find yourself doing one thing that is not cool or does not work, we’ll fail quick: scrap it, study from it and transfer on to the subsequent factor with out being unhappy or quitting due to it.”
Loesken began Fail Quick despite the fact that he is already taking part in guitar for an additional hardcore venture, Care Much less. Fail Quick additionally consists of his Care Much less bandmate Matt Williams, in addition to Ryan Quiros and Han Sang-jun, each earlier members of Punk on Hearth, plus drummer Jegger Im.
“I first thought of beginning up this venture as a result of I felt like I used to be principally rubbish at writing songs within the Care Much less model and since I am a man that desires to be continuously busy and at exhibits,” Loesken stated. “Every little thing I ended up making an attempt to write down for Care Much less was quicker and extra chaotic and needed to be reined in to suit the opposite songs.”
So he put collectively some compositions in his personal model, and shortly he had sufficient bandmates on board to ship his imaginative and prescient.
“I noticed that everyone else within the band was expert as hell and will truly play actually quick music as these songs have been written,” he stated. “I used to be actually completely satisfied that we may lean into the pace and vitality of punk music in Fail Quick. The musicianship on this band is form of means higher than a band like this must be.”
Fail Quick takes some cues from old-school skate punk, melodic hardcore, punk rock, “and doubtless even some emo and pop punk in just a few songs,” Loesken added.
“I truthfully do not know what our style can be, and I do not assume it is as necessary to me to have it clearly outlined because it appears to be for lots of people,” he stated. “So long as these songs are cohesive and do not all sound wildly totally different, and so long as the stay vitality is sweet and principally aggressive, I am cool with it.”
The band launched its first recordings on Sept. 6, recorded domestically at Binary Studios, run by Jeff Moses of the melodic punk band …No matter That Means, who runs the label World Domination, Inc.
“I’ve recorded with Jeff now over three bands,” stated Loesken, who was additionally within the earlier band Get to the Level. “I really feel like every launch popping out of Binary Studios is getting higher and higher throughout all the genres beginning to report there, so I used to be positive we might simply be capable to nail the appropriate vibe of those songs.”
The album has three songs that each one have a fairly constant texture, beginning with the 33-second “Numbers Recreation,” which jumps proper into the subsequent tune, “Slap on the Wrist,” and takes a second earlier than its closing onslaught in “An About Face.”
When explaining the album’s message, Loesken circled again to the band’s overarching theme.
“The idea of those songs is fairly constant, which is to not surrender and to not let your self get slowed down by being excellent, in addition to not letting your self get dragged down by negativity,” he stated. “Ask for assist from these round you if you want it, do not be too exhausting on your self and simply hold working in the direction of one thing and doing higher. That is stuff that I’ve to inform myself on a regular basis and really stay by in my very own life, so I am glad I am not up there spouting nonsense that does not apply to me.”
He added that he snuck in just a few references to social points “just like the justice system of *insert any nation identify you need* and the pesky police of 1 very particular and fairly distant nation.”
As a international resident of Korea, he admitted that a number of the nation’s tendencies towards perfectionism are touched on on this message, however he emphasised that it did not play a serious half.
“The Korean give attention to perfection performs an element in it,” he stated, “however the songs are principally written primarily based on particular folks or situations that I’ve come throughout the place I believed ‘this expertise can be so significantly better or fruitful if we simply known as issues good now and moved on.’ As extra of the songs geared in the direction of that message, I did positively take into consideration this making use of right here generally in Korea as nicely, although.”
Now that the band has established a secure lineup and put collectively sufficient good songs for a good set, Loesken stated they will give attention to taking part in extra exhibits within the coming months. He is additionally engaged on extra songs, with plans to maintain recording.
“I am beginning on the subsequent batch of songs to write down now as nicely, so I hope to at all times have one thing new to indicate for the band,” he stated. “Fail Quick will most likely at all times be as much as one thing because it was fashioned as an outlet to remain busy so it is simply within the band’s nature. Actually man … I simply wish to keep lively.”
Go to failfastreal.bandcamp.com to listen to Fail Quick’s music, or observe @failfastreal on Instagram.