Let’s balance out yesterday’s intensely saccharine, one-dimensional pick with something from the opposite end of the spectrum. Straw’s music video is unsettling, thought-provoking, and defies simple explanation. I recommend listening to Straw twice; once accompanied by the video, and once without. The song itself starts out on an upbeat note (I couldn’t help but be reminded of a bright spring day, or a slightly nippy winter morning), but slowly starts to yono all app transition into something a bit more melancholy.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1832007020","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); I don’t know a whole lot about EZ Kim (not to be confused with Kim E-Z from all yono rummy Baby V.O.X), and there aren’t a lot of resources out there for the casual Korean indie listener. She’s part of a two-person act called Ggotjam Project, and has participated in a number of TV drama soundtracks over the years, including a duet with Roy y1 games latest Kim for 2016’s Goblin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2QsCrPDiDk One more thing I chanced upon was a wonderful collaboration with Choi Jae Man, a former Urban Zakapa member. The wonderfully chill, nearly ethereal Glow is almost worth a post in itself: