A hammer can break and it can mend. On the cover of her debut album, With a Hammer, Yaeji wields her own mallet. The Korean-American artist’s face is calm, but the cute smirk drawn on to the tool has an air of playful menace. Is she going to use it to destroy or create? A glance over her shoulder is an invitation for us to follow her and find out.
With a Hammer is Yaeji’s debut full-length album, but the 30-year-old singer-producer-DJ spent her 20s becoming a rising star of New York’s underground club scene. Along the way, she occasionally spilled over into the mainstream – with her party anthem Raingurl or her cover of Drake’s Passionfruit. But With a Hammer marks a renovation of her musical identity.
