February 10, 2023
Ahead of her debut album "Aperture," due May 19 on Subpop, Hannah Jadagu soundtracks self-admittance alongside moments of declaration with energetic charm on the new track "Know What You Did," which released with a music video directed by Leia Jospe.
Angst and elegance overlap sincerity making a not-so-symbiotic thread of personal exchange easier to relate to amid the song's sonic sweet tooth to find a bright side. Moments of observation and clarity collect through the track as the unpinned central character takes unregistered arrows with the running potential of embodying a tornado — unable to see its own destruction. The imagery can be felt most in the lyrics, "play pretend, act like it's best if we make amends, but I don't wanna talk to you again, I don't wanna talk to you again." Surface recollections are revisited and countered by hard lines of thought and feeling in response.
Emotional identifiers hit close to home regarding the idea of ill alignment and understanding that not everything on a foundational or essential level is a given... Your personal defaults are not always the automatic ground zero of how others actively relate, communicate or treat each other. In some moments, it can feel just as easy to restore your faith in humanity by witnessing people taking care of each other as having it thrown into the wind by seeing hurt or harm inflicted, especially if intentional. Realizing the number of differences between our character and behavioural consistencies, that of others and where it all overlaps is a deep conversation.
The feel-good guitars and glitter-laden vocal delivery present a relatable undercurrent of push and pull, enabling an engaged inner world with each listen. Hannah builds garden walls with a warm delivery encouraging an easy top-coat listening experience while possessing substance to dig deeper where introspection makes room for it. The best pieces of work, like other things in life, often allow for multiple paths to be paved and travelled. "What You Did" spotlights contrasting worlds even if their coexistence isn't all daisies in real-time.