How does anger sound? Messy like the chaos on Metallica’s ST. ANGER? Desperate like Kelis on “Caught Out There”? Calculated like Beyoncé on LEMONADE? Yaeji has found her own way of putting anger into sound: delicate, almost dreamy, self-determined and born for the dancefloor. No wonder: since the US-Korean producer and singer landed a worldwide hit with a remix of Drake’s “Passionfruit”, she burned down the hut as a DJ everywhere from Berghain to the Boiler Room with her mix of house, trap and pop attitude and released critically acclaimed EPs and mixtapes.
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At the same time, however, the last few years have been anything but easy for an Asian woman in the USA and Europe: the pandemic revealed the ugly face of anti-Asian racism, and in the USA women in particular with a Southeast Asian background have repeatedly been the target of attacks and even attacks . It is these experiences that flow into Yaeji’s very personal biography on her first album: on WITH A HAMMER, inspired by the anime heroines of the nineties, she tears down everything that stands in her way with the metaphorical hammer, the patriarchy, Racism, the weight of the world.
Not in a brutal, aggressive way though, Yaeji’s anger hovers almost as light as a feather in the air, then again, like on ‘1 Thing To Smash’ with British producer Loraine James, it seems to flow lethargically syrupy. Yaeji frames her sometimes breathy lyrics in English and Korean in productions that move between indie rock, electronica, noughties pop and trip-hop moments. “You fall with yourself,” she repeats like a mantra on “Happy,” and we, we fall in love with her.
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