“However, butterflies fly in the day. They’re considered beautiful, touchable, good luck sometimes… moths, they’re nocturnal, and people are scared of them. They think they’re disgusting, gross, whatever. But, you know, there was a time when I was sitting in front of the convenience store under a [brightly] lit sign, when a bunch of these moths were flying around. And when these moths finally landed on this bright light, and the light [was] shining through them, their print was actually more beautiful than the butterflies.”
MOTH isn’t his first solo project but it is, in a way, a metamorphosis of its own. Listeners will notice the sound transition throughout the four tracks. It starts with the dreamy “ComE dOWn,” and ends with “Modern Life,” a rock anthem about the pressures of living in this social media-centered world, that’s more sonically similar to The Rose’s music. “I can’t tell what’s real anymore / Fake face, fake friends, fake fantasies,” the song goes. Like the moths Woosung described, the album shines a bright light to reveal his different sides as an artist. This week, Woosung is starting a tour in North America and Europe to showcase MOTH, first heading to Amsterdam then visiting Paris, Berlin, New York, and Vancouver, among other cities, along the way. He has missed playing live.“I think people, in general, these days are missing out on just live band music,” he said. “I think what live music, live instruments bring on live stage… can’t be described. Because once you’re there, you’re there, you know? You can’t have that in a video and hear from your amazing home speakers. It’s still not the same.”“Some of us, maybe, just need a little bit of light to really show our true beauty.”