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Korean Australian singer-songwriter Hannah Bahng<\/a>\u2019s lushly lowkey music combines yearning and heartache with a Gen Z sense that any genre is ready for use, be it melancholy indie-pop or introspective alt-rock. Since debuting last year with her excellent The Abysmal EP<\/em>, she has headlined a sold-out tour and performed at Rolling Stone\u2019s Future of Music Showcase<\/em> at SXSW. On Friday, Bahng is releasing her latest collection of self-penned songs, The Misunderstood EP<\/em>. Each of the seven tracks stands on its own merit as a self-reflective tale of vulnerability and longing. But when played straight through, the songs tell a more complex story that begins with desperation and ends with the promise that she will be \u201cMe Again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOrchid \/ Flame\u201d kicks off the EP with a weary Bahng navigating a one-sided relationship: \u201cAnd I love more than I am loved\/\u2026\u2019Cause I was an experience, but you were my everything and more.\u201d Halfway through the song \u2013 which she says was originally intended to be two separate tracks \u2013 there is a crescendoing piano run that sets up the desperation of being \u201caddicted to your flame.\u201d On \u201cMisunderstood,\u201d Bahng sings in an atmospheric timbre that falls somewhere between Nelly Furtado and Natalie Imbruglia, conveying her disappointment: \u201cOh it happened again\/Now I\u2019m back in the den\/Where the lions are men,\u201d she sings. But rather than crying about how she\u2019s been done wrong, she accepts her share of co-dependent responsibility, plaintively singing, \u201cOn my knees begging for release\/Oh I need you for me.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n As on her first album, Bahng co-produced The Misunderstood EP<\/em> with Andrew Luce. Lush cellos and mournful piano trills coexist with the overall less-is-more sound. On the hazy, guitar-driven pop-rock song \u201cWhat Never Lived,\u201d Bahng\u2019s voice veers from smoky to sweet. Tackling the vagueness of dating, she sings, \u201cOut on a Thursday night you called to say sorry\/And like a fool I thought you would change for me.\u201d But that situationship is preferable to the push-pull toxicity that\u2019s taking place in \u201cSweet Satin Boy,\u201d which leaves her \u201ca shell of my former self.\u201d<\/p>\n And just when listeners are ready to ride at dawn to avenge that boy, the final three songs offer reprieve. Accompanying herself with subtle guitarwork, she sings of resilience on \u201cRIBS (interlude).\u201d Instead of questioning whether she is enough, Bahng declares, \u201cI don\u2019t wanna talk to you.\u201d She takes it a step further in \u201craison d\u2019\u00eatre,\u201d asking, \u201cWho the fuck am I?\u201d<\/p>\n The EP ends with the dreamy \u201cI\u2019m Me Again,\u201d where Bahng knows exactly who the she is. \u201cI\u2019m me again, it\u2019s been awhile\/I feel again\/I\u2019ll be real again\/I\u2019ll heal again,\u201d she sings over a hypnotic mashup of strings, synth, and bass. It\u2019s an intimate moment of cathartic self-discovery. By the EP\u2019s end, it\u2019s clear that Bahng isn\u2019t misunderstood. She\u2019s Miss Understood.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Korean Australian singer-songwriter Hannah Bahng\u2019s lushly lowkey music combines yearning and heartache with a Gen Z sense that any genre is ready for use, be it melancholy indie-pop or introspective alt-rock. 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