10 April 2026 - Piratebae (Yaeger)

 

 

Release Date: 10 April 2026

Song Count: 10

Duration: 32 minutes, 31 seconds

Rating: 6.6/10

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Here is a brand new release from today that I managed to stumble onto! From an up and coming singer and music artist from Stockholm, we've got Hannah Jäger, known by her stage name Yaeger, and her debut album Piratebae, released after around a decade's worth of publishing what has been dubbed "emotional rave pop" under the Yaeger project. Combining self-reflective songwriting and a formula of widely appeasing electro-pop with an ocean and sailing theme injected into the lyricism, Piratebae appears to be a deep dive (pun not intended) into different aspects of Yaeger and the artistic way she depicts her experiences in life.

 

A general slick, modernised sound is the main connecting thread across this set of tracks as Jäger's often reverberated voice echoes atop instrumentals primarily dominated by electronic sounds and mixing. Though the vague theme of the wide seas and travelling through them has no effect on its own in the way the tracks sound, plenty of word plays delivered by the vocals do incorporate it in multiple songs, and the song titles are especially shaped by it with names such as "Poseidon", "Cast Away" and multiple more. In spite of noticeably drawing inspiration from more successful instances of electronic pop as a means to gain traction through their similarity, few tracks within the album actually contain enough of the particular edge it takes for songs of the genre to reach proper heights, with a chunk of the outputs falling behind.

 

Hannah Jäger certainly shows plenty of potential to become a name to watch out for in the future, and her first shot at an LP is an exemplary showcase of what she can do within the scope of her self-set niche. As such Piratebae ends up stealing the show in particular aspects whilst falling short in some others, in a naturally occurring balance as if the album were to sink and float in the midst of the sea. I do wish some of the tracks were more memorable with their melodic progressions and use of sounds than they ended up being, though, and as a result, the whole package can only really go so high in the books. Overall not bad for a last second find, but one that does showcase a need for some refinements in Yaeger's style so she can truly strive to rise up in the pop world going forward.