Kin Hana explores wild contradictions through latest release “Howling World”

Kin Hana injects the odd tension of René Magritte’s “Young Girl Eating a Bird” into “Howling World,” a song about rejecting the truth but instinctively devouring the very world one seems to be turning one’s back on. That pairing gives the song a disturbing, dreamlike pull. Hana lives in the image’s irrationality, making the song feel mysterious, but without losing emotional heft. “Howling World” leaves us caught between fascination and unease, catching the instinctive contradictions that can make human experience so hard to name.