Parannoul is an anonymous musician from South Korea whose densely layered, wistful music blends emo with shoegaze, as well as post-rock and electronic elements. Their self-released early albums, particularly 2021's To See the Next Part of the Dream, developed a major word-of-mouth online following without any outside promotion. 2023's After the Magic, the project's most melodic, anthemic release to date, incorporated orchestral instrumentation and glitchy production effects.

Between 2017 and 2019, the artist behind Parannoul released over a dozen albums of instrumental post-rock as laststar; the releases have since become unavailable. Parannoul's debut, Let's Walk on the Path of a Blue Cat, appeared in early 2020. To See the Next Part of the Dream, recorded entirely on a computer in the artist's bedroom, was released in 2021. More vocal-driven and hook-heavy than the artist's previous efforts, the album quickly became a huge hit online. Later in the year, Parannoul released Downfall of the Neon Youth, a split album with two other emo/shoegaze artists, South Korea's Asian Glow and Brazil's sonhos tomam conta. On the first day of 2022, Parannoul's neo-classical new age alias Mydreamfever released the album Rough and Beautiful Place. Parannoul then issued White Ceiling/Black Dots Wandering Around, containing demos and outtakes that didn't make it onto To See the Next Part of the Dream. Paraglow, a collaboration with Asian Glow, appeared in September. After the Magic, Parannoul's third album, arrived in January 2023, featuring string and horn arrangements, guest vocalists, and occasional breakbeats and glitches. Topshelf Records released the physical editions of the album. Two months after the album appeared, Parannoul released the live album After the Night, including the 46-minute "Into the Endless Night." ~ Paul Simpson