Acclaimed young New York artist Hannah Jadagu’s second album is a vibrant, emotionally powerful collection of songs of love and distance, deftly mixing synths and digital instrumentation with the vibrant guitar playing she showed off on her 2023 debut.
 
On Describe, Hannah Jadagu learns the hard way that distance is relative. After her 2023 debut album Aperture garnered glowing praise from outlets like The New York Times and NPR, Jadagu’s blossoming career took her away from her blossoming relationship in New York. Her expansive second album sees her grappling with that separation, finding connections that extend beyond the physical and strengthening her own voice in the process. Describe reverberates with that tension, between wanting connection and craving space. Its lyrics, as on her debut, ache with an emotional specificity that can only be pulled from lived experience. “I’ve been five thousand miles away,” she sings over ricochetting hi-hats on “More”—“Why does three thousand feel like more?”
 
RIYL: Clairo, FKA Twigs, Chanel Beads & Rosalia.