YAEJI - What We Drew LP

Label: XL Recordings

Yaeji, a bilingual Korean American producer living in Brooklyn, could not have known that her first full-length mixtape would be released into explosive social frictions, a spate of violence against Asian Americans that would prove the “model” myth a hollow gesture. And yet her music arrives as an openhearted counterpoint, making space for both anxiety and love, offering a timely reminder of the power in subverting expectations of others and appreciating community.

Yaeji's What We Drew is titled intentionally; the project is as much indebted to her own singular creative vision as it is to her network of close-knit collaborators and friends, a team she's described as a "family business." What We Drew is Yaeji's first full-length release, and entirely self-produced, but she's careful to classify it as a mixtape, which belies the way that these songs came together. "Each track is almost like a snippet of my life, a look into my diary or something, where it's reflective of how I was specifically feeling during that time."