Emo was and remains a worldwide phenomenon with plenty of room for all kinds of music under its wide umbrella, as emo pop outfit Shuttle Loop attest to.
Shuttle Loop were a band from Seoul, South Korea. I say 'were,' but it's vaguely possible they still are—their Facebook page was last active in 2017 and their website is down, so they've probably called it quits. Their sound is a highly polished aggregate of emo pop from the 2000s, from Straylight Run-style ballads to The Get Up Kids-style pop punk to the occasional burst of Hawthorne Heights-style mall emo screaming; there's even a little midwest emo put in here and there. The end result is something that sounds sort of like the emo pop of the early to mid-2000s without ever fully embracing its tropes. Over the course of their three releases, their sound shifts focus around these elements, emphasizing some while deemphasizing others.
After forming in the mid-2000s, the band's first release was the How Are You Today EP in 2008, followed two years later by their first LP, Time Is Not. It would take another five years for the band to release its last album, The Anchor, an album that recognizes "I'm Pretty Sure Every Fade Out Means Happy Ending" is the band's best song, because they rerecorded it. However, I can't decide if the rerecording is an improvement: It's more bombastic and 'better' produced, if you consider more production to be better, but emo often benefits from the raw qualities the first recording has, and I think that may be the case here.
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