Album of the Week: Pan Daijing | Jade

Pan Daijing’s Lack from 2017 remains a force to be reckoned with.

“I saw myself being this absurd, mad person ‘acting’ out the sounds… It’s rather physical, and became like a mindgame. All things came out naturally as part of me.”

That’s some of what Pan Daijing had to say about her debut album on PAN. Here’s what Boomkat has to say about her new record, Jade, released on the same label last month:

If Daijing’s PAN debut “Lack” was operatic body horror, all fireworks and theatrics, “Jade” drags that body inside, dumps it into a grimy bathtub and locks the door.

This is intimate, haunted music where every sound sounds ominous, even laughter, teetering on the abyss between the absurd and the lost. Industrial noise barely tamed for consumption. Careful, it bites.

“Solitude is like an immense lake you’re swimming through,” says Daijing of these songs.

Swimming around Jade feels like drowning.