🎧 Philadelphia-based experimental artist lucyliyou employs electroacoustic sound collages to meditate on psychotherapy, gender identity, and intergenerational family dynamics. See them live at ConstellationCh on June 10
It’s a rare delight to stumble upon a musician’s debut album and instantly recognize that they have a style all their own. This was the immediate reaction I had in 2020 to, the first full-length by Philadelphia-based artist Lucy Liyou. It is, as with many other experimental records by emerging artists today, a confessional and curiosity-driven work.
The album uses Liyou’s regular voice and text-to-speech throughout, and the latter acts to distance Liyou as well as the listener from the personal experiences they share, even as it adds further textural dimension. The result is whiplash between the impressively tender and the aggressively abstract., Liyou makes greater use of their classical piano training and crafts ambient pieces that dive deeper into family matters.