“Hell is a teenage girl” - Zin Choi’s darkly sweet alternative R’n’B

Written by Jamie Finn (@jamiefinn2209)At seventeen, Seoul-born singer-songwriter Zin Choi has a back catalogue, a philosophy, and absolutely no interest in slowing down.There's a moment on the track microGiant, Zin Choi's defiant thesis statement, where things start to click. The housey production is airy, almost sweet, and underneath it sits the quiet resolution of a girl who has decided that she doesn't care what anyone thinks. "She does what she wants," Zin says, in relation to the autobiographical lyrics, "and she looks cool doing it." Zin Choi is seventeen. She has been making music seriously since she was fifteen, when she self-produced her debut EP. She is the daughter of Hitchhiker, the Korean electronic artist and K-pop producer, whose gloriously strange avant-pop track 11 (Eleven) sampled the voice of his then five-year-old daughter. That voice, it turns out, hasn't changed all that much. "I recently realised I could still make the same sound," she says, laughing. "So that's my weird hidden talent."It’s easy to lead Zin’s story with her impressively cool lineage. But spend some time listening to her music, and that framing starts to feel not just reductive. For one, her p...