Lee Seung-yoon released an album featuring songs written before his breakthrough on a TV show
South Korean singer and songwriter Lee Seung-yoon released his fourth full-length album, *Album 0*, in June. The album features songs written approximately ten years before his victory on the JTBC music show *Sing Again*. According to the Korea Herald, the album contains 29 tracks and served as a way for the artist to complete songs he had previously considered unfinished.
Lee Seung-yoon started out as an independent musician: he performed in underground clubs, played on the streets of Seoul, and recorded music at home. In 2021, he won the first season of Sing Again, where he was known as “Singer No. 30.” Since then, the artist has released full-length albums almost every year, given solo concerts, and headlined music festivals.
Album 0 features songs written between Lee’s debut at the 2011 MBC College Song Festival and his victory on Sing Again in 2021. Lacking sufficient access to a studio, the musician recorded his early compositions in his room and posted them online. Before the premiere of *Sing Again*, he deleted these recordings—including his first digital album from 2013—hoping to properly re-record them later.
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The first disc of the new release features songs from the album *What Do I Steal*, which is no longer available, while the second disc contains new versions of songs written later. According to the artist, he did not aim to literally recreate the old recordings but wanted to make them part of contemporary history. At the same time, in the track “The Rebels,” Lee recreated the atmosphere of the original home recording, including the sound of a pen tapping on a table.
On July 23, Lee Seung-yoon, along with 100 fans, listened to 14 tracks from the album and discussed each one at The Sound event in Seoul’s Seongsu-dong district. He spent a year recording *Album 0*. By the end of the year, the musician plans to perform the material at festivals, including the LaLaLa Festival in Jakarta—this will be his first performance in Indonesia.
