The 15th: A Revisionist History of The Two Koreas

by The Two Koreas

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1.	U-Boat Commander 02:36	buy track
2.	Midnight Brown 02:23	buy track
3.	LP Winner! 03:38	buy track
4.	Withering Heights 04:19	buy track
5.	Boy Teen Oslo 04:32	buy track
6.	Diamond Geezer 04:41	buy track
7.	Play the Song, Christopher 01:56	buy track
8.	54 Is the New 27 03:03	buy track
9.	Poor Man's Tony Wilson Blues 02:27	buy track
10.	Cloth Coat Revolution 05:13	buy track
11.	R. Architect 05:44	buy track
12.	Bad Captains 06:00	buy track
13.	Karl Johans Gate 07:48	buy track
14.	Cheeky Snaps 05:48	buy track
15.	A Neu Ing 03:49	buy track

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The only band in music history to open for Wire, call Mac DeMarco a labelmate for about two weeks, and play an in-store at the Eaton Centre Hot Topic, The Two Koreas mark 15 years of sporadic existence the only way they know how: with an egregious display of self-aggrandizement and cheap sentiment. The 15th: A Revisionist History of The Two Koreas does just what it says in the pixelated print on the thumbnail: compile and reshuffle 15 neglected back-catalogue castaways to create the illusion that Toronto’s preeminent practitioners of electric jangular beat muzik have just released 2019’s most vital new rock ‘n’ roll record. The 15th collects several Dan Burke-certified 2Ks klassix, some seriously slept-on deep cuts, radio sessions, and previously unreleased live material as if the botched MySpace server migration never happened. It’s the perfect Two Koreas album no matter if your knee-jerk reaction is “who the fuck are these guys?” or “are those dudes actually still around?”

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released March 21, 2019

Tracks 1, 7, 10, 12, and 14 taken from the 2006 album "Altruists," produced by Don Pyle

Tracks 2, 4, 6, and 13 taken from the 2011 album Science Island, produced by Jon Drew

Tracks 3 and 9 taken from 2014 release LP Winner EP, produced by Jon Drew

Tracks 5 and 8 recorded live on XM Radio's The Verge in May 2007

Track 11 recorded live at the Horseshoe Tavern in April 2010. Source unknown (but if you're the person who recorded it and emailed it to us back in the day—thank you!)

Track 15 recorded live for CJLO Montreal in March 2007. Thank you Omar!

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