“A fascinating album where creative impulses and naiveté are filtered through a strong sense of aesthetics with newfound confidence. It's the sound of a unique artist finding her footing and stepping in the zone.”
“Billed as a mixtape, Yaeji’s first full-length album is an uncategorisable treat that surfs the cusp of club music, sickly sweet pop and the blithe menace of Boards of Canada. Formerly a graphic artist and house DJ until she turned to music-making, 25-year-old Kathy Yaeji Lee returned to her native New York after a nomadic childhood, much of it spent in South Korea. Her output combines Korean-lang”
“Yaeji’s first full-length mixtape is a subtle, more insular turn for the producer. It plays like a self-issued challenge to strip away the fluorescence, to find what’s underneath pop catharsis.”
“Three weeks into global lockdown and it’s a little tiring to read reviews that still call new albums the perfect soundtrack to your isolation. Everyone’s guilty, but it feels disingenuous; a one-way ticket out of a word count, guaranteed to make your reader start nodding in agreement, so long as they like it too. So, to do myself and this magazine a huge disservice, New York-via-Seoul producer/voc”
“a dazzling, genre-blurring tribute to communal spirit”
