YIAN, by Lucinda Chua

YIAN

by Lucinda Chua

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Ashley Rivera i dare you to make it to the end of this record without forgiving yourself Favorite track: Something Other Than Years.

Naomi Alterman jeezis christ, lucinda chua is just so good. SO GOOD. for some reason bandcamp isn't letting me select it, but my favorite track on this album is "Autumn Leaves Don't Come", which combines the sweeping beauty permeating this album with some of the off-kilter weirdness present on chua's strings mixtapes and in her earlier work as Felix. Honestly though they're all good tracks. I'm so happy she's still making music.

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1.	Golden 04:06	info	buy track
2.	Meditations on a Place 02:31	info	buy track
3.	I Promise 03:20	info	buy track
4.	"You" 03:22	info	buy track
5.	An Ocean 04:19	info	buy track
6.	Autumn Leaves Don't Come 03:58	info	buy track
7.	Echo 04:05	info	buy track
8.	Do You Know, You Know? 05:12	info	buy track
9.	Grief Piece 02:16	info	buy track
10.	Lucinda Chua feat. yeule - Something Other Than Years 04:10	info

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“YIAN” (燕), means swallow in Chinese, and is part of “Siew Yian,” the name given to Chua by her parents to preserve her connection with her Chinese heritage. Just as the migratory songbird lives between places, so did Chua, the artist living in the in-between of the English, Malaysian and Chinese cultures that make up her heritage. In the absence of Mandarin as a mother tongue, music became a way to express the parts of herself that couldn’t be described in words; “YIAN” emerged as a way to heal.

A deeply introspective and fully realized vessel of creative expression (Chua self-produced and engineered eight of the ten tracks), “YIAN” emerges as less an album than a worldview, a commitment to learning and uncovering one’s own selfhood honed over Chua’s lifelong reconciliation with her own personal history and identity.

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released March 24, 2023

2023, 4AD Ltd

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Lucinda Chua London, UK

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Reclaiming the Rose

Dec 2023
Reclaiming the Rose (24-bit)

Dec 2023
YIAN

Mar 2023
Golden

Oct 2022
Antidotes

Aug 2021
Antidotes 2

May 2021

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