Los Angeles-based Korean-American artist Lucy Liyou has a new album on the way: Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name is slated for release on March 21 via Orange Milk. It’s led by the intimately resonant single ‘Arrested’, which comes paired with a Park Seung Won-directed music video. Check it out below.
The new album finds Liyou revisiting material she began writing as a 19-year-old college student. “Most of these songs were originally about my parents,” Liyou explained in a statement. “They were about wanting to be loved and accepted by my parents as a closeted transgender young adult. I tried recording some of these songs with their original lyrics but felt a dissonance. I don’t feel this wish to be accepted by my parents anymore. I have already accepted their love as pretty conditional. I don’t feel the need to tread that territory again for a while.”
“It’s strange because the desire I had for my parents to want me seems to have found a new space in the desire I have right now for my partner to stay with me,” Liyou continued. “So I started to rework these songs, preserving some of the recordings, lyrics, and arrangements of my past self, while supplementing them with new meanings and sounds.”
She concluded: “I don’t think this album is any more complicated than that. It’s not a breakup album. It’s just me doing my best to document what I’m feeling at this time. I named the record Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name to remind myself that the more amorphous moments I’ve shared with you are the ones most important to me. Because they make me work harder to remember us as who we were together. And because that work means there is still love for me to mine. To keep.”
Liyou’s last LP was 2023’s Dog Dreams (개꿈). More recently, she contributed the Grouper-featuring ‘Blush’ to RedHot’s TRANSA compilation. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Lucy Liyou.
Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name Cover Artwork:
Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name Tracklist:
1. 16/8
2. Credit
3. Arrested
4. No Tide Aorta
5. Imagine Kiss
6. Jokes About Marriage
7. Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name