Yetsuby | 4eva
On her third solo album, Seoul-based producer Yetsuby (aka Yejin Jang) crafts a surreal, immersive landscape that blends deep bass with glittering eccentricity. 4EVA feels like an interactive dream world—part club reverie, part storybook oddity—where every texture invites closer listening.
Known for her eclectic sonic palette, Jang has previously floated between new age serenity and club-ready mischief. Her sound—a shifting swirl of bird calls, folk textures, K-pop edits, and digital glitches—has long rejected boundaries. As Yetsuby, she builds on that freeform ethos, stacking and slicing samples until they resemble abstract collages, vibrant and uncontained.
On 4EVA, she dives fully into this mosaic-like approach. Tracks such as s2WINGSs2 buzz with insectoid rhythms, while FLY drifts on syrupy synths and warped sax figures. Aestheti-Q channels video game sparkle and hyperpop cheek, all pinned to skittering breakbeats and helium vocals. In Where is my…, whispery crackles and lullaby loops bloom into a surreal lull, balanced on the edge of the uncanny.
Though the album bursts with rave energy—nods to UK club culture abound—it never settles into predictability. Jang pulls influence from breakbeat, electro-acoustic composition, and late-2010s alt-R&B without mimicking any one tradition. Her training in classical composition gives the tracks a sculptural edge, even as she indulges in playful chaos.
aaa_2 is a standout, a high-speed tangle of jazz piano and breakcore momentum that teeters on the edge of implosion. I_AM, by contrast, is disorienting in a different way, its pitched-down monster vocals and sugary lilt playing out like a twisted nursery rhyme set in space. Emotional and sonically restless, the track captures the album’s central mood: a nostalgic longing that looks forward rather than back.
Yetsuby has always balanced club functionality with a deep sense of imagination, but 4EVA is her most coherent vision yet—a place where joy, confusion, tenderness and absurdity live side by side. It’s music for those tired of genre conventions and eager to lose themselves in something weirder, warmer, and far more alive.
