Where to go after Yerin Baek’s “0310”
The writing process behind tellusboutyourself offers a route from “0310” to her next album.
Yerin Baek’s name keeps coming up in the credits for “0310”. She wrote the music and lyrics, arranged it with Cloud, and played electric guitar alongside jonny and Cloud. Released on Every letter I sent you. in December 2019, the song already finds her involved well beyond the vocal. [1]
That is a useful starting point for her next album, tellusboutyourself, released on 10 December 2020. What changed was partly the way a song began. [5] [3]
Speaking to Franchesca Judine Basbas for Bandwagon at the time of its release, Baek described the album as a collection of songs she wanted to perform on stage. For “0415”, she had a specific wish: to hear her voice on a deep house track. A setting for the voice could be part of the idea from the outset. [2]
The beat came first
The experiments had begun before “0310” came out. In Daichi Yamamoto’s interview with Baek and Cloud for POCLANOS, she recalled taking a few MIDI lessons from Cloud in early 2019. She began making sketches herself and sent him starting versions of 13 of the next album’s 14 songs. Some of her own beats and keyboard parts made it into the finished work. [3]
She described reversing her usual order. For the first album, she had played piano or guitar while writing melody and lyrics together. This time she found a beat she liked, set the tempo, played keyboard, then added melody and words. The sketches helped Cloud understand the style she had in mind when arranging. [3]
Baek later gave two more specific entry points in an interview with Alyssa Bailey for ELLE: “HOMESWEETHOME” and “Bubbles&Mushrooms”. She named these as the songs on which she had pushed herself furthest, describing her attempts at house and 2-step. She also credited a new producer joining the team with helping her try music outside her previous habits. [4]
Baek was already a co-arranger on “0310”. Her sketches gave that collaboration a more concrete starting point: Cloud could hear her intentions before arranging. [1] [3]
For a next song, try “0415” with her original wish in mind: she wanted to place her voice in deep house. Then move to “HOMESWEETHOME” or “Bubbles&Mushrooms”, the experiments she singled out herself. [2] [4]
Sources & further reading
- Every letter I sent you.: album notes and creditsPOCLANOS / Yerin Baek · Korean and English
- Yerin Baek on the songs she wanted to performBandwagon / Franchesca Judine Basbas · English
- Yerin Baek and Cloud on making tellusboutyourselfPOCLANOS / Daichi Yamamoto · Korean
- Yerin Baek on trying house and 2-stepELLE / Alyssa Bailey · English
- Next listen: tellusboutyourselfApple Music · English
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