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Hannah Jadagu is going bigger and bolder on Describe, which she dropped on Friday, Oct. 24, via Sub Pop Records.
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The 12-song album is built on a blossoming relationship she had while living in New York, but had to come to terms with the distance from it after moving away. Following her relocation to California for the summer, she missed the comfort and intimacy of her New York home. She had to leave New York to continue her music career, exploring new dimensions of her sound and finding new collaborators to experiment with analog synthesizers and drum machines.
“I was feeling love and gratitude, but also guilt about being away for my job,” she says in press materials. “Being a musician requires sacrificing time. And one thing about me, I’m a quality time girlie.”
On her debut album Aperture, the primary instrument was the electric guitar. On Describe, she’s embracing the flow of things, figuring out how to express ideas that aren’t fully concrete. It’s a soft-synth dreamscape, with songs finding Jadagu navigating through her feelings and singing some of her most brutally honest lyrics to date.
On the title track, she expresses a dance with a potential fling that lost some of its spark. “Maybe it’s getting time we head back to Texas / Don’t you hate this weather?” she sings.
The electro pop single “My Love” is a feel-good song about a long-distance relationship, capturing young love in such a way that anyone who experiences reuniting with someone they missed for so long can relate to. “Normal Today,” thrumming with icy industrialism, is going to be one of those festival anthems that’ll create a collective experience when we’re singing “Help me so your love is found” at the top of our lungs.
According to The Dallas Morning News, Jadagu’s parents moved from Zimbabwe to Texas in the late ‘90s. While she was a senior at Horn High School in Mesquite, she recorded songs on her iPhone in her bedroom during the pandemic, uploading one of her first songs on SoundCloud that took off. Then in 2021, Sub Pop released her five-song EP, What Is Going On?
She’s currently on tour this fall in North America and Europe, where she’ll be doing a record release show in Brooklyn at Public Records, as well as doing the Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris and London.
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