Album Info Hide Show Artist: Hye-Jin Park = Hye-Jin Park Album: Before I Die Released: USA & Europe, 2021 Tracklist: A1 Let’s Sing Let’s Dance A2 I Need You A3 Before I Die A4 Good Morning Good Night A5 Me Trust Me A6 Where Did I Go A7 Never Give Up B1 Can I Get Your Number B2 Whatchu Doin Later B3 Sex With Me (DEFG) B4 Where Are You Think B5 Never Die B6 Hey, Hey, Hey B7 Sunday ASAP B8 I Jus Wanna Be Happy C Y Don’t U D Clouds Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. 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Minimal house rhythms, clean drum programming, a knack for loopy hooks that sneak up on you, and bass that thumps without showboating. Whats changed is the intimacy. Before I Die is less a set of club tools and more a portrait. Her voice sits right up front. It murmurs, chants, asks, answers. She is producer and narrator at once, folding tiny emotions into small synth figures and clipped vocal phrases. It makes for a record that you can live with. Its not built to blow out a festival main stage. Its built to trace the shape of a week. Lets Sing Lets Dance is the natural entry point, a single that sounds like hope with edges. The groove is steady and unhurried, the kind of pulse you can ride from early evening through closing time, and her refrain feels like a promise to herself as much as an invitation. Whatchu Doin Later taps the same power in a looser way, leaning on repetition and space, the kick and hi-hat doing most of the talking while her voice flickers in and out like a thought you keep returning to. She does this often on the album. A phrase becomes a mantra, then a room to think in, then a hook you cant shake. The production is all about subtraction, which is part of why it works so well on vinyl. She keeps the palette spare, then makes every element count. A dry clap, a light synth line, a sub that behaves itself. You can drop the needle on the Before I Die vinyl and feel how much air she leaves between the drums. That space is her instrument too. It gives the record that late-night drive quality, the one where you take the long way home because the song hasnt ended. If you collect Park Hye Jin vinyl, this one is the keeper, the context-setter that makes the earlier EPs feel like sketches. Context matters here. In the year before the album, she teamed with Clams Casino and Take A Daytrip on Y DONT U, which hinted at a broader palette but still kept her voice central. On Before I Die she doubles down on that point of view. No big cameos, no outside producers. Just her, threading club patterns with confessional fragments. It feels personal without sliding into melodrama, and it lands in that sweet spot where house music becomes story. Not plot, exactly. More like atmosphere with memory attached. Press took notice when it came out, and not just in dance circles. Publications from Pitchfork to The Guardian weighed in, picking up on the way she turns restraint into something immediate. Fans did the rest, passing around tracks that spoke to the quiet weirdness of 2021, when everyone wanted to dance and half the world still felt like a bedroom. The album isnt chasing trends, and that helps it hold up. Every listen reveals another small decision. A hi-hat that tucks in early. A bass note that arrives a shade late. Choices that make you trust the person behind the desk. If youre crate digging in a Melbourne record store, this sits comfortably next to gently melancholic house records from the past decade, but it doesnt copy them. It sits on its own shelf, the one for late-night statements. And if you prefer to buy Park Hye Jin records online, the pressing has the kind of clarity that flatters her minimalist approach. For collectors who like to file artists by feeling, slide this under solitary but hopeful. It is a modern Ninja Tune album in spirit as well as stamp, quietly adventurous and easy to live with. The best way to hear Before I Die is simple. Let it run while youre making plans you might cancel. Let the steady pulse tidy up the day. Theres heat here, and tenderness, and a producer who trusts her own instincts. Park Hye Jin albums on vinyl tend to reward patience, and this one builds a small world you can revisit. If youre browsing vinyl records Australia shops or checking a local listing, dont overthink it. Pick it up, take it home, and let that first kick drum find its way into your room. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review