“Newton’s Apple” by Nell, Friday, November 17, 2023
In February of 2014, Nell released their album Newton’s Apple , culminating in a theme the band had explored on two EPs starting in 2012. The band broke their conscription-imposed hiatus in 2012 with the album Slip Away , released in April. In December, the band returned with a four-song EP Holding onto Gravity , the first in their gravity series. Next, the band released the EP Escaping Gravity in 2013. Newton’s Apple was the band’s full-length follow-up to 2012’s Slip Away. Released as a two-disc album, the first disc contained new songs, and the second one contained the two EPs Holding onto Gravity and Escaping Gravity , making 21 songs loosely based on gravity. The title track , was an electronic ballad in English, comparing falling for the subject of the song "like Newton's apple hit the ground." IT WAS LIKE A ROLLERCOASTER OF NEVER ENDING QUESTIONS. formed in 1999 after the four members failed the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT or suneung / 수능 ). The test...