“This kid is way too young to be smoking a cigarette” may be the first thought to enter your head when you see the visuals for Yung Lean’s latest track: “Motorola.” Named after the company known for making classic communicators like the Razr (both the OG flip versions and the newer Android ones), ”Motorola” stays true to its namesake with the simple refrain of “gold on my wrist, phone in my pocket.” Yung Lean – a babyfaced, ESL sadboy straight out of Sweden – takes so much getting used to that when trying to appreciate his work, one may have trouble viewing him artist right off the bat. His voice is another instrument, meant to flow along with and supplement the sparse and spacey beats. It’s not like some other “acquired tastes” where you don’t like them, then suddenly you do, and then you love everything they make thereafter. It’s not like when you finally decided you liked coffee after drinking it a few times during all-nighters. No, listening to Yung Lean’s discography would be like drinking 30 coffees and not liking each one until you’re about halfway done. Each individual song takes some replay to get used to (with the exception of Kyoto, which is a banger through and through with amazing visuals to match), but once you like a song, you like it for life. After a few plays of “Motorola,” I can say this is the case.

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