Video: Yaeji - “New York 93″
The weekly rollout of new singles from Godmode Music as part of the Brooklyn label’s Faculty Series continues, and this one breaks a somewhat annoying recurring trend that has plagued the stream of new tunes in that we finally get to see the face of one of its newest discoveries instead of shrouding the song in a SoundCloud mystery. “New York 93″ comes from Kathy Lee, b.n.a. Yaeji, an underground electronic producer who makes glassy paces in the dark that seep easily into the subconscious as a soundtrack to a nighttime walk through the fleeting humanity of NYC. She appears in the track’s accompanying video directed by Anthony Sylvester, who has become something of a visual archivist of New York City life as transmitted through the warped lens of Godmode’s roster, and here, he’s able to make one of the most densely populated metropolitan communities in the world into a vacant space where Yaeji’s thoughts are free to roam. “I've gotta say / It's not the same / I don't deny, I won't remind / My memories, there are almost none / I can't recall living in this city,” a ghost of her former self observes. It was all a reality at one point, but now it’s sounding more like a hallucinatory dream.
