Wings of the Isang


Wings of the Isang is a South Korean post-rock band. The band currently consists of Moon Jeongmin, Lee Choonghoon, Kim Taebong and Jeon Minkyoo. Since their formation in 2011, the band has released two studio albums Stream of Consciousness and The Borderline Between Hope and Despair . They won the Best Modern Rock Album in 2017 and 2022 Korean Music Awards.

Career

Wings of the Isang were formed in 2011. The band began with the duo band Detuned Radio, later they recruited additional members and re-founded the band. They tried to name the band Wings at first, but they changed it to the current band name because friends around them called it related to Yi Sang's novel The Wings. They released the EP Lost in 2011. In 2014, they were named the Hello Rookie of the Month in The EBS space.
In 2016, they released their first studio album Stream of Consciousness . The album won the Best Modern Rock Album and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2016 Korean Music Awards. In 2017, they released the single No Longer Human inspired by the novel No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.
In 2021, they released their second studio album, The Borderline Between Hope and Despair . Yoo Seongeun of Music Y, described the album's track Twenty Years Old as "It is a song where you can feel the belief in unfolding the narrative that only Wings of the Isang can do without wavering without letting go of the passage of time and the emotion of loss", the track was nominated for Best Modern Rock Song at the Korean Music Awards. And the album won Best Modern Rock Album.

Discography

Studio albums

Stream of Consciousness

EPs

Lost
  • ''The Story of You and Me ''