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Mar 24, 2023 · 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.
- June 29, 2024
Mar 23, 2023 · In her largely self-produced debut full-length, YIAN, Lucinda Chua is both the swallow—the bird in flight, in search of home—and the swallowed, a body succumbing to something greater than...
- Minna Zhou
Lucinda Chua's debut album 'YIAN' is released 24th March via 4AD on clear vinyl, CD & digital services. Buy.
Aug 13, 2023 · W hen Lucinda Chua recorded YIAN, her subtle, searching debut album, it felt like an escape. Confronted with the pandemic, the London-based cellist and composer retreated to the studio where...
- Annabel Nugent
Feb 20, 2024 · On her debut album YIAN, Lucinda Chua confronts her ancestral trauma — not with a yell, but a whisper. On her gossamer light song “Echo,” synths pass through like a gust of cool evening wind...
- Steffanee Wang
Mar 27, 2023 · On YIAN, Chua constructs landscapes of herself: an ocean, an avalanche, the echo of the wind under-wing. Named for Chua’s middle name in Mandarin, YIAN translates to "swallow," a songbird whose reliable migration — its own paradox —connotes positive change, the dawn of spring.
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Mar 24, 2023 · Listen to YIAN by Lucinda Chua on Apple Music. 2023. 10 Songs. Duration: 37 minutes.