Hannah Jadagu started making music on her iPhone in a bedroom in Dallas. That origin story matters less than what she has built since, but it does frame the trajectory: two full-length albums, a devoted following, and a sound that keeps maturing without losing the intimacy that made people pay attention in the first place.
‘Describe’, Jadagu’s sophomore record, is out now. The Dallas-raised, Brooklyn-based indie synth-pop artist threads ethereal synths, atmospheric reverb, and genuinely addictive hooks through a record that pushes toward emotional honesty at every turn. Distance, time, and what Jadagu calls “love-adjacent” themes run through the album, grounded by a stated goal that’s deceptively simple: make music that helps listeners get at the truth of human experience. ‘Describe’ gets there.
For a WFUV Studio A session recorded on the album’s release day, Jadagu performed a three-song set with guitarist and bassist Garrett Chabot and drummer Isabella Croce. The set included “Gimme Time,” “Doing Now,” and the popular “My Love,” serving as a warm-up for her album release show that same night at Brooklyn’s Public Records, where she had the crowd singing along to songs they were hearing for the first time.
That ability to pull a room in immediately is not incidental. It is exactly what Jadagu’s music does, whether the room holds five people or five hundred. The FUV Live session is also available as a podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Podcasts, with new episodes dropping every Monday.