Last Updated on 2025-11-02 by a-indie
Live Activities and the Future
– Tomohiro Yabe: It’s been a year since you held your first solo concert in October 2024. How was that live performance? It seems you place more emphasis on creating works than performing live—if there’s a reason for this style, please share it.
Jeong Heecheol: The solo concert in October last year was like a kind of “launching ceremony” for us. We proceeded mainly by inviting acquaintances as the audience at a practice room and performance venue operated by a CEO with whom we’ve maintained good relations. The reason we’ve been active focusing on creation rather than performances is that we’ve been extremely stressed by our lack of skill as performers. It’s also true that at the time, I thought creating good music was more of a priority. But now that the album is out, from next year we want to create many meaningful stages together with good stages and fellow artists. We’re waiting for offers.
Meaning of the Title ‘Artificial Sun’
– Tomohiro Yabe: Could you tell us about the meaning of the title ‘Artificial Sun’? Why did you choose this title?
Yoon Eunbin: This might be a long story, but the starting point I felt while making this EP was the sense of anxiety about an era where humanity is increasingly treated cheaply, an emotion as if the real “sun” had disappeared. Recently, it’s an era where hatred is created too easily for the reason of being different from each other, where lines are drawn by gender, generation, and class, and misunderstandings deepen, right? But I didn’t want to say something like both-sides argument like “this is everyone’s problem.” Rather, I wanted to talk about the point that sensitivity toward people who are increasingly marginalized is becoming dull. In this context, I came to think that emotions like loneliness and frustration that we often experience are actually not very personal things, but emotions connected to the era we’re placed in. In other words, I wanted to talk about an era when not “individual light” but public light, the sun that was open to everyone, disappeared, and the album ‘Artificial Sun’ started from the imagination that we must make something to replace that absence with our hands. The “artificial” here is closer to a sun made by truly ordinary people banging on scraps than a product of science and technology. For ordinary people living difficult days, I want it to be like a small sun that can be carried in your pocket, an accessible hope that can be taken out and used by plugging in earphones when needed.
Doo Geunhyun: Recently, not just Korea and Japan, but the whole world seems to be in a confused period… We just wanted to convey even truly small hope to people in this melancholy situation. In that sense, the artificial sun symbolizes a sun we handmade, or that someone alone made in a small room—hope. We don’t even hope that people will be comforted by listening to our music. We just want to convey hope to endure even one more day.
Kim Jaechan: Recently, it seems like we really can’t find the word “peace” anywhere. War, violence, drugs, countless fears seem to make it impossible to envision the future. I hope we can unravel the message of hope with the keyword of artificial sun, and go forward creating hope.
Message to Fans in Japan
– Tomohiro Yabe: Who do you want to listen to ‘Artificial Sun’?
Doo Geunhyun: People who have lost motivation to live in this world. It might be an irresponsible word, but just a little more… if you endure just a little more, won’t good days come? I’m living like that. Everyone, fighting!
Yoon Eunbin: You, the one looking at this interview right now.
Kim Jaechan: I want people who have lost their life’s direction and people who don’t have a life’s direction to listen. I hope that by listening, your direction will be born!
– Tomohiro Yabe: Finally, there are fans in Japan, including us, who are listening to your EP and looking forward to your performance in Japan. Could you give them a message?
Jeong Heecheol: If there are people in Japan who listen to our music and want to see our performance, I want you to let us know of your existence. Then we’ll respond through the stage.
Yoon Eunbin: I love you. Let’s meet soon~
Kim Jaechan: I’m working hard on studying Japanese. Let’s greet each other happily on the day we meet 🙂
Post Inner Circle Album Release
1st EP『Artificial Sun』
Release Date: October 13, 2025 18:00 (JST)
Tracklist:
1. Mountain Dew
2. Dream Tomorrow (내일꿈)
3. Poignant (애틋)
4. Mumbling Dreamlike Shimmers (꿈결 반짝이게 멈블)
5. Eternity (영원)
6. Artificial Sun (인공태양)
7. Flashback
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Post Inner Circle Band Profile
Post Inner Circle is a band based in Seoul exploring the possibilities of post-rock, dream pop, and shoegaze. Five close friends with different personalities, tastes, and even wake-up times—four of them sublimate voices into music, and the remaining one transforms that sound into visuals. Since their first solo concert in October 2024, the band has been committed to breaking down familiar boundaries and building an inclusive musical foundation for people who exist between the lines. They released their debut single “Angel” in June 2025 and are now approaching their first EP in October, followed by a showcase concert in November. Many more activities are planned for the future.
Post Inner Circle Live Information
Event Name: Post Inner Circle EP『Artificial Sun』Showcase
Date: November 8, 2025 (Saturday)
Venue: Gongssang Ondo (B1, 40 Donggyo-ro 23-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul / Donggyo-dong 203-11)
Performers: Post Inner Circle
Special Opening Guest: Zzzaam (@zzzaam_official)
Writer: Tomohiro Yabe (yabori)
Editor-in-Chief of BELONG Media/A-indie. Has been writing the music blog “Timeless Masterpieces,” which became the predecessor to BELONG, since 2010.
After writing for “only in dreams,” hosted by Masafumi Gotoh, vocalist of ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, he majored in Music Business at a music vocational school.
He has been writing articles about Japanese and international music for over 10 years.
In the past, he was in charge of garage rock, psychedelic rock, and Japanese indie rock at a music CD rental shop with over 100,000 album titles.
Utilizing these experiences, he has published 26 issues of the music magazine “BELONG Magazine” with the theme of “roots rock.”
His hobby is watching “Kaiun! Nandemo Kantei Dan” (a Japanese antique appraisal TV show).
Articles written so far can be found here
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