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Peggy Gou’s I Hear You: The superstar DJ eyes global domination. Peggy Gou, I Hear You Peggy Gou is a phenomenon. Born in South Korea and based in Berlin, the 32-year-old is one of the biggest DJs on the planet, having graced stages everywhere from Coachella to Primavera Sound to Berghain to Ibiza to the late Virgil Abloh’s Off White fashion show.

Gou’s turning point came in 2017, when her set at Glastonbury Festival was deemed so good that revellers raised one shoe in the air in that Australian sign of approval that’s been adopted at music festivals around the world. She’s since released EPs on Ninja Tune, started her own label, Gudu Records, contributed a mix to !K7’s illustrious DJ Kicks series, and started her own fashion line. Her debut album has been years in the making and comes out on XL, home to superstar artists such as Adele, the XX, and Thom Yorke.



Gou’s already huge — she has over 4 million followers on Instagram and more than 10 million on TikTok — but with I Hear You , she’s trying to go supernova. Fans will be familiar with some of these songs already (one was released as far back as 2021), but this isn’t such an issue when the new music is just as strong. The most obvious bid for the charts is I Believe in Love Again , a cruisily paced pop-house collaboration with Lenny Kravitz.

Unfortunately, it’s also the worst track on the album. There are no guitars, which seems to defeat the purpose of bringing in the axe hero, and Kravitz’s fal.

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