Jennie Strips Things Back on the Intimate ‘Fallen Angel’ EP

Jennie’s latest solo project doesn’t need much time to make its point.

The BLACKPINK member released her new digital EP, “Fallen Angel,” on August 28, pairing a three-song project with a surreal music video for its title track.

At just under nine minutes, “Fallen Angel” is a deliberately compact release. It contains the title track, “HEAVEN” and July single “Less than a Lover,” bringing together music Jennie had gradually introduced throughout the summer.

OA Entertainment described the project ahead of release as coming from a “very personal place” and representing Jennie’s truest self-expression.

That intimacy carries into the music.

“FALLEN ANGEL” is built as minimalist acoustic pop, centering a guitar melody and comparatively restrained instrumentation around Jennie’s vocals. The song follows the feeling of searching for somewhere — or something — that can provide refuge.

“HEAVEN” approaches relationships from a more conflicted place, depicting two people who continue hurting one another while remaining unable to let go. Rougher, dreamlike guitar textures accompany that tension.

Then there’s “Less than a Lover,” the alternative-pop track Jennie released in July after first introducing new material during her summer festival appearances.

Together, the three songs make “Fallen Angel” considerably smaller in scale than Jennie’s 15-track debut album “Ruby.” But that brevity appears to be part of the project’s identity rather than something it is trying to overcome.

The title track’s music video pushes that identity further.

Jennie moves through a surreal, dark-fairytale world filled with water, flowers, butterflies and imagery built around falling and flight. Beneath the spectacle is a story about confronting a newly discovered sense of self and eventually finding freedom.

The three-song digital release also isn’t the complete version of “Fallen Angel.”

A physical edition arrives October 30 with six tracks, adding “sweettooth,” “lockitdown” and “Face.” OA says all three additional songs will be exclusive to the physical release.

That creates an unusual second chapter for a project that is intentionally tiny in its current form: listeners get the intimate three-song version now, while half of the eventual six-track edition remains unheard digitally.

For now, “Fallen Angel” feels less interested in being another sprawling Jennie statement than capturing one particular moment.

Three songs. Nine minutes. One very specific world.