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What We Drew [Mixtape]
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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

  • Summary: The 12-track mixtape from the Brooklyn-based Korean-American electronic producer features guest appearances from G.L.A.M., Lil Fayo, Nappy Nina, Shy One, Victoria Sin Sweet Pea, trenchcoat, and YonYon.
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Exclaim
    Apr 3, 2020
    90
    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.
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    Apr 3, 2020
    80
    It may feel a little bittersweet set to the current backdrop of global self-isolation but a record as richly textured as this, and with its focus on communal connection, makes it a ripe world to explore in trying times like these.
  3. The Guardian
    Apr 3, 2020
    80
    Mostly, though, Lee counterbalances her darker experiments with playfulness and hope. Her genre-fluidity creates moments of unexpected beauty.
  4. Pitchfork
    Apr 6, 2020
    80
    While What We Drew is more internalized than past releases, it is not conflicted; rather, Yaeji finds clarity in vulnerability, in the pendulum swing of her humanity. Crucially, the mixtape doesn’t turn its back on one of Yaeji’s strongest traits as an artist: Her music has always been deeply social, and now it is more gregarious than ever in its gratitude for those around her.
  5. Q Magazine
    Apr 7, 2020
    80
    Simultaneously disorienting and seductive. [Jun 2020, p.106]
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  6. AllMusic
    Jul 30, 2020
    80
    Her productions have become far more ambitious, abandoning the straightforward house beats of much of her earlier material in favor of more expansive, detailed arrangements that incorporate trip-hop, electro, and drum'n'bass. Her lyrics are significantly more personal this time, and a far cry from the club-dwelling, cheekily hedonistic persona of earlier hits like "Raingurl" and "Drink I'm Sippin On."
  7. Beats Per Minute
    Apr 22, 2020
    80
    It’s anything but disappointing.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Loonatheworld
    Apr 5, 2020
    10
    This mixtape gives me auditory satisfaction. I feel like I'm hallucinating.
  2. Lajaleaa
    Jun 8, 2020
    8
    ( 81/100 )

    Yaeji nació en Flushing, Queens con una fuerte descendencia Koreana que aprovechó para inspirarse al comenzar a hacer música.    ( 81/100 )

    Yaeji nació en Flushing, Queens con una fuerte descendencia Koreana que aprovechó para inspirarse al comenzar a hacer música. Presente desde el 2017, Yaeji se ha destacado por su propia producción de sonidos LoFi y Electronic-Indie cuyo Experimental es suficiente Pop para ser accesible, agradable, Chill y, hasta cierto punto, Luxury. Yaeji pasa de lo popular a lo Underground y Ambient con facilidad que, en general, este Mixtape la estipula como una productora importante e influyente en el futuro.
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    Yaeji was born in Flushing, Queens with a strong Korean descendency which she took as inspiration to make music. Present since 2017, Yaeji has been distinguished by her own production with Lo-Fi and Electronic-Indie which experimental is enough Pop to be accessible, nice, chill, and, to a certain point, luxury. Yaeji goes from popular to underground and ambient with ease that, in general, this Mixtape proves her as an important and influential producer in the future.    … Expand
  4. LilScience
    Jan 10, 2022
    7
    Yaeji, combina energia com os estilos ambiente e experimental, nos trazendo para uma nova atmosfera, What We Drew é uma viagem ao seu mundo,Yaeji, combina energia com os estilos ambiente e experimental, nos trazendo para uma nova atmosfera, What We Drew é uma viagem ao seu mundo, pode ser verde, azul, amarelo, ou um arco íris inteiro, sua obra faz nos sentirmos que podemos viajar para onde quisermos.
    Faixas favoritas: When I Grow Up, Free Interlude, Waking Up Down, These Days e Never Settling Down,    … Expand
  5. Kebber10
    Apr 21, 2020
    5
    Switched off after the „testing 1,2,3“ song.. NME use the term Naïve.. i‘ll leave it there

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