Album Review: Park Hye Jin Asks How Can I?
Color me SHOOK by Park Hye Jin’s sound in new EP: How Can I? Out June 26, The EP feels like a relic tossed into a time machine, from the 90’s, to bring us all back to the techno club. In short, it is F**KING phenomenal.
Ah! Yes! Techno has never died, but transformed into many, even crazier iterations like EDM. Yet, 90’s techno was a cross between grooved disco, Afrobeats, and the seedy, rapid underbelly of Europe’s rave culture; with verses repeating like, “Groove Is In The Heart.” Park does the same in songs such as, “No,” “Like This,” and “Can You.” Each song carries a HYPNOTIC rhythm destined to entrance club-goers. I already see the glitter and glow-sticks in the air as people dance; remember when we all could do that at a thing called a club? Memories!
박혜진 Park Hye Jin – ‘Like this’ (Official Video)
Honestly, Park’s voice could easily begin an ASMR cult. It is so steady and serene that every phrase she repeats feels like a new, psychedelic trip, even if the verse she has decided to repeat is “Shut The F**k Up!” Frankly, I did not speak as I listened (lol!) Yet, there is a emotional rawness to this album as constantly mutters verses like, “I love you” and “I hate you.” Through repeating phrases over her electrifying soundscape, she places listeners upon a view; one where a couple teeters between a night of dance or one heartbreak.
박혜진 Park Hye Jin – ‘How can I’ (Official Audio)
Truly, Park’s rhythms enter you and make you feel happily thoughtless like ASMR, but, instead listening to sounds to make you calmly sleep, she has created sounds to make you peacefully dance with NO self-consciousness. The result is an EP that makes you excited to go to one of her shows. A warehouse of people raving to this EP would be celestial. Park Hye Jin’s How Can I comes out June 26 Click Here.
