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MojoSep 21, 2021A lugubrious but fresh, genre-bending take on modern club music. [Nov 2021, p.91]
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Sep 10, 2021Hye Jin refines her sound, pulling from trap and boom-bap, not to mention dubstep and techno, to turn out a coming of age hip-house album. Before I Die is the clearest artistic vision we've heard from Hye Jin.
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Sep 9, 2021Before I Die firmly establishes Hye Jin’s multifaceted sound and crafts a mood that feels very of the moment.
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Sep 9, 2021Park Hye Jin has crafted an affecting multi-layered debut that, rather than reaching a conclusion of fulfilment, manages to find happiness in just being alive.
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Sep 9, 2021Park Hye Jin has single-handedly constructed a safe and supportive space for the introverted, sad, and disillusioned — a purely compassionate space put together by a single and inevitably singular talent for other lonesome souls to dance their sadness away.
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Sep 14, 2021A fairly unique record that shape-shifts through electronic tones all while giving us a clear view of her inner monologue.
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Sep 14, 2021Every song has something to do with the track that came before it but is also treated as its own memorable experience.
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Sep 9, 2021Her self-produced full-length debut feels more elaborate than her EPs while also seeming impulsive and off-the-cuff.
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Sep 14, 2021At its best, the album explores the contours of an emotional journey in space and time. Occasionally, though, scattered moods and unfocused songwriting blunt the record’s impact.
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Sep 13, 2021Although the dominant mood is bedroom-dreamy, the effect of her staccato choruses and slapping beats is hammeringly percussive, allying her with the hyper-pop of Charli XCX. Depending on the listener’s ear, Hye Jin’s work can also come across as repetitive and facile.
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Sep 9, 2021Her detached, precise narration leaves little to hold onto, and over 15 tracks, you begin to long for a little more emotion. Still, these productions are dark, atmospheric - she knows exactly how to conjure up a mood. It’s just that it’s slightly too forbidding to ever fully feel at home.