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Multi-genre performer Jimmy Strain has released his fourth regular album. The compilation album consists of six parts which are offered on six CDs. There are 60 songs in total with a runtime of four hours. Appropriately, it took him a great deal of time to produce it -- five years.

Jimmy Strain, who is a Seoul-born artist, taught himself guitar and music composition. He studied biotechnology in university but dropped out to focus on music.

The six-part album consists of almost all genres of music including instrumental, folk, soft rock, electronic, dance and heavy metal.

Part 1 is composed of piano instrumentals which sound more like movie soundtracks and are good for easy listening. Part 2 consists of folk songs and soft rock songs written in English which have a similar vibe to foreign pop songs. Part 3 consists of Korean songs which try to maximize the beauty of the Korean language in a poetic, singer-songwriter style. Part 4 features upbeat and fast-tempo electronic sounds which carry heavy lyrics talking about human rights and sexual minorities. Part 5 and 6 carry rock and heavy metal again with heavy lyrics discussing social issues from capitalism to revolution.

Despite having never lived overseas, Jimmy Strain has a good command of English and writes the English lyrics himself. His English pronunciation in his vocal songs is also impressive.

Jimmy Strain's name was derived from three influential Jimmys -- Metallica's James Hetfield, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and The Doors’ Jim Morrison. Jimmy Strain released his first regular album "Emotion Frequency" in 2009 and has since released several albums. He writes, composes, sings, performs, records, mixes and masters and even designs the album alone from beginning to end.

The digital album will be available this December on iTunes. A hard copy CD and vinyl are currently available through offline stores such as Seoul Selection and also through his website jimmystrain.com or on international distribution channels Bandcamp and CD Baby.