Album Review: Andrea Jin, Grandma's Girl

Grandma’s Girl by Andrea Jin album cover

Andrea Jin has an education in funny, and it shows. After immigrating to Canada at ten years old, Jin says she taught herself English by watching sitcoms and stand-up comedy. It’s working out really well. 

Speaking to life as a female, life as an immigrant, and family matters, Jin navigates vulnerable material with cool sarcasm and absurd asides. Though these jokes are specific to Jin, she presents them so that anyone can relate and laugh along. Peppering raunchy anecdotes throughout, she’s an expert at building and breaking tension.

For context, Jin is self-referential like David Sedaris and wry like Morgan Murphy. Listing Ali Wong as an early influence, she’s got that same take-no-shit attitude.

Jin is a comic that knows how to give an audience what they want. But she does it her way, never one to pander or veer off-brand for a cheap laugh. On debut album Grandma’s Girl, she has the writing chops of an old pro with a delivery that makes it all feel so effortless. It’s easy to see Jin killing it on multiple stages, from seedy bars to gala events. Listen now so you can say you knew about her before she was famous.

Grandma’s Girl was released January 29, 2021 on 604 Records.
Listen to it here.