Yaeji is back with a hot new club single titled “booboo” – the first new music from the NYC-via-Seoul artist, producer, singer-songwriter, and DJ in a year.

After a brief period of retreat from the club, while she recorded and released her 2023 critically-acclaimed debut With A Hammer, Yaeji is back firmly behind the decks with this floorfiller.

Last month “booboo” debuted during Yaeji’s Boiler Room DJ set at Brooklyn Mirage, followed by a live performance of the single during her performance at Pitchfork Music Festival. The unapologetic and carefree club bop is a result of Yaeji’s recent period of deep introspection. On “booboo” Yaeji returns to the club with a new found self-liberation, locked in to her connection with mind, body and soul, surrounded by her friends and the underground dance community that inspired her to begin making music in the first place. On “booboo” Yaeji also reflects on 2017, the year that her break-out hit ‘Raingurl’ thrust her into the mainstream spotlight,

Speaking further on the single, Yaeji explains:

“i think with anything – a little breathing room, a little break – distance makes the heart grow fonder. with the overpowering attention that came from raingurl, i took a break from clubbing, dance music, and the underground scene, but in that time away from it all, it’s allowed me to gain new perspective and a deeper appreciation for it. this year is the 10-year mark for many of the parties my friends and i used to go to, so booboo coming out now feels like full circle moment. and with my closest friends—who i’ve witnessed grow as DJs and start their own labels, throwing parties & having fun, all while creating a radical and safe space, it’s been so fun being their cheerleader and now rejoining them in the club, front right! “

Yaeji will premiere “booboo” to a Canadian audience next month with a performance at Montreal’s Palomosa (September 6th).

Following the release of her much anticipated and critically acclaimed debut album With A Hammer, Yaeji reemerged in late 2023 with the single and music video “easy breezy”. The single arrived in between the North American and European leg of Yaeji’s With A Hammer tour, which Pitchfork noted saw “[Yaeji in] full-force superstar mode, singing and dancing to sleek choreography with finesse that could easily put several bigger stars to shame.

After a whirlwind year of landmark moments, including presenting at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in Japan in March and celebrating the one-year anniversary of her debut album With A Hammer, Yaeji is on the other side of a period of deep excavation. Inspired, aligned, full of joy and hope; her faith in music and humanity once again found on the dancefloor.