The Solutions

The band was formed in 2012 by frontman and lead singer Park Sol and guitarist Naru.[1][7] Both had previously been solo performers. Naru, a music producer and singer songwriter, had released two modern rock genre solo albums, Jaga Dangchak in 2008 and Yet in 2010. Park Sol was an already well-known indie musician, with a 2010 album The Song is You,[1] and was a singer songwriter for the 2011 music competition show Superstar K 3.[7] Park Sol has described Naru, who usually arranges the music, as the leader between the two. They started writing and performing most of their songs in the English language, as the lyrics seemed to work better than Korean lyrics; but they have questioned their abilities to sing well in English. Naru spent five years as a child in America and later studied English in Korea, and Park Sol learned it while traveling abroad for a year when he was twenty. Naru said he started playing guitar in his teens and writing songs at twenty, and says the two of them work hard at music, as they had a later start than some musicians.[9]

The band toured Asian countries, Europe and the U.S., and performed solo and at indie festivals in Hongdae.[4][7][8] In 2015, they played at the fifth Seoulsonic annual concert which introduced South Korean musicians to U.S. audiences at the SXSW music festival.[10] They headlined the 2017 Pentaport Rock Festival along with other South Korean and foreign acts, including rock bands Bastille and 5 Seconds of Summer,[11] and have performed at Japan's Summer Sonic Festival[4] and Spain's Primavera Sound.[12]

Their first album The Solutions was released by the original duo, Naru and Park Sol in 2012, and followed by a second album, Movements, with all four members in 2014.[1][3][4] They created the song "All That You Want" for the music project SM Station's 2017-2018 Season 2.[13]

They released their third studio album Signature on July 29, 2019, which includes the title track "In My City".[12] They also released an EP titled "Load" featuring the title track "Dance With Me" on June 2, 2020. [14]