about the record

Jiyoung Wi is a multi-faceted artist from Seoul, Korea, currently residing in The Hague, Netherlands. Jiyoung’s work can be situated within fictional literature, improvised music, and field recording, with an interest in juxtaposing and disjointing these fields of practice through her sonic and literary methodologies. Jiyoung’s debut album, Accept All Cookies, is a concise body of work that marks the beginning of her practice in the 12” LP format. The recording serves as one of two releases concluding the three-year sonic endeavor that is the ENXPL (Enmossed X Psychic Liberation) series.

Having previously released recordings on compilations for labels like Mirae Arts, Eastern Nurseries, and Psychic Liberation, here Jiyoung hones a cinematic structure that exemplifies the biome of her craft. While she is presently performing the systematic dismantling of a violin in her live improvisations, paired with approachable boutique synthesizers, Accept All Cookies is a pairing of the inimitable Korg MS-20 and field recordings staged or captured by Jiyoung in Seoul and Busan, South Korea.

With three scenes per side, Jiyoung walks us through different geographical and spatial intimacies. Public spaces and intimate conversations are obscured and reconstructed. Glass elevators, an unknown hotel lobby piano recital, office toilet rants, windowside night bus travels, and multiple languages interplay with staged and unstaged conversations, transmogrifying into a world shaped by Jiyoung’s view. Money, sex, relationships, and cultural parameters are at once idiosyncratic and disorientingly familiar to the listener.

As an extension of the series coined by Jiyoung as Sound Fiction, the album feels crisp and pressurized—at times funny, at other times melancholic. As language, space, and viewing perspective shift, Jiyoung’s succinct album invites the listener into an aural world uniquely her own viewpoint. While collecting source material from the outside world—conversations, elders, and the closing track featuring Sungeun Lee—the listening experience deeply illustrates Jiyoung’s perspective. The disjointed experience of someone maneuvering internationally to further develop a practice is encapsulated brilliantly here in Accept All Cookies. Alongside Makoto Oshiro’s Stacked, it is a perfect bookend to the ENXPL series.