Giraffage premieres “Green Tea,” a groovy collab with Body Language’s Angelica Bess
The producer’s new album is out October 20.
Charlie Yin, the Taiwanese-American artist who makes bedroom EDM as Giraffage, is about to drop a new album. Called Too Real, the full-length (out October 20) was written while Yin was coming out of a bout of depression. It features vocals from Japanese Breakfast, plus lots of his signature post-everything production quirks. The songs sound personal, sultry, and hopeful.
Today, the FADER is premiering "Green Tea," for which Body Language's Angelica Bess contributed a terminally smooth vocal. "This one is probably one of the fastest beats I made for the record," Yin said in an email. "I literally made the beat in like, 30 minutes and then spent another six months trying to find the right vocalist. After a few iterations, I hit up Angelica Bess and had her try something over it, and she absolutely crushed it. The lyrics are about female empowerment, which I feel is a more important sentiment than ever at this point in time." Listen below.
Too Real comes out on Friday, October 20.
Tour dates:
10/25 - Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
10/26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Coda
10/29 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
11/03 - Montreal, QC @ Newpeak
11/04 - Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
11/05 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
11/08 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
11/09 - Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
11/11 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
11/12 - Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
11/14 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
11/16 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
11/17 - Vancouver, BC @ Fortune Sound Club
11/18 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
11/21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
11/25 - San Jose, CA @ The Ritz
11/26 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
11/28 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
11/29 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theater
11/30 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
12/1 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
12/2 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
12/5 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
12/6 - Austin, TX @ Vulcan Gas Company
12/7 - Dallas, TX @ Trees
12/8 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
12/9 - New Orleans, LA @ Republic
12/13 - Orlando, FL @ The Social
12/14 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
1/31 - Helsinki, Finland @ G Live Lab
2/1 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Stengade
2/2 - Haarlem, Netherlands @ Patronaat
2/3 - Rotterdam, Netherlands @ BIRD
2/6 - Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique
2/7 - London, UK @ The Jazz Cafe
2/8 - Bristol, UK @ Thekla
2/9 - Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall
2/13 - Paris, France @ La Bellevilloise
2/14 - Basel, Switzerland @ Kaserne
2/15 - Milan, Italy @ Circolo Magnolia
2/16 - Rome, Italy @ Largo
2/17 - Budapest, Hungary @ A38
2/18 - Vienna, Austria @ B72