Computer Blue // Yes, But Consider Toast LP

韓国のインディーデュオComputer Blueが、2025年8月にソウルのNo Slack Recordsからリリースしたレコードです。

ドリームポップ〜トリップホップ10曲を収録。

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12" black vinyl.
Edition of 150 copies. 

Tracklist:

1. Alone 04:32
2. In the Light 04:01
3. Insomniac 04:12
4. 'Tis Time 03:55
5. Somewhere in Between 04:10
6. We Can Go 04:49
7. Endless Grace 04:26
8. Magenta 03:21
9. Sun King 04:00
10. Float 04:03

From the label:

"'Yes, But Consider Toast' is the debut album from Computer Blue, the synergistic duo of singer/songwriter and cellist Jane Ha aka Pika and producer, DJ, and live performer Junmin Cho aka Livigesh.  It is pop—transfigured. Skewed. Hazy. Edged with noise. A nexus of two emotive particles. 

Across ten tracks, Livigesh lays down a warped pop continuum—fragments of beats, textures, and samples. These are his invisible cities; the architecture is arranged and rearranged. Over that, Pika’s sharp, understated lyrics further stretch the idea of pop into something more unstable—more raw. [Yes, But Consider Toast] is aurally akin to a dream-like flux, grounded by the human condition.  If you're looking for reference points, maybe it’s Computer Blue’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Teen Dream, or Heaven or Las Vegas—but filtered through the dust and circuitry of a personal expression of reality.

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Though listeners might draw comparisons to Stereolab, Beach House, or Cocteau Twins, Computer Blue’s sound is more a product of the lives they lived, the scenes they passed through, the tracks that never left their playlists. There are nods to electronic textures, field recordings, pop hooks—but the record refuses to settle into any one frame. It’s held together by a fidelity to the feeling of the first take. No polish for polish’s sake: mixes that prioritize mood over metrics.

[Yes, But Consider Toast] isn’t clean or calculated—it’s more like a transmission caught on a lucky frequency. You take a bit of raw, a bit of haunted, and you get something strangely inviting. Some tracks hit soft; some don’t care if they hit at all.  [Yes, But Consider Toast] feels like the in-between spaces: the liminal places, the solitary walk, the Wordworthian daffodils. The long night keeps unraveling. And you return without knowing exactly why. So, yes, why not consider toast."

Artist : Computer Blue

Label : No Slack Records

cat no : NSCB001

Release date : 29th August 2025