Shoreline Share “Seoul” & Announce New Album “To Figure Out”

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Germany’s Shoreline have announced their new album, and Pure Noise Records debut, To Figure Out is set for release on 23rd February 2024. Deeply rooted in the DIY punk scene, Shoreline gained a reputation as a rousing live band after countless shows in squats, rehearsal rooms and basement clubs all over the European continent, so that they quickly found themselves opening for scene legends like Basement, Silverstein, Spanish Love Songs and Hot Water Music

Lead single Seoul is about reclaiming singer Hansol Seung‘s cultural heritage, buried beneath assimilation and insecurities as a young adult growing up in rural Bavaria. “Can you figure out how to get rid of the wish to be someone else?” he says, addressing his way of not only accepting, but embracing the fact that he looked and felt different through connecting with other Asian immigrants throughout Europe and the USA. The song is an extremely intimate story of accepting his skin colour and cultural identity, empowering and healing at the same time.