(3/6/5) 026: mui zyu - the rules of what an earthling can be
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Though she sits right on the cusp of releasing her second full-length album, Eva Liu already has a rich musical heritage behind her. There was, of course, her excellent debut album, Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century, released just over a year ago but penned throughout lockdown times, there's also her work alongside Luciano Rossi and Daniel Grant as Dama Scout, the scintillating art-rock trio who have been releasing music since 2016.
Throughout these shapeshifting years, often split between London and Scotland, Liu found a home on the lovely Father/Daughter Records, and the label remains on board for the release of Liu's second solo album; the softly fascinating the rules of what an earthling can be.
Born in Northern Ireland, to parents from Hong Kong, Liu often uses her own music as a way of exploring such heritage, however on her latest work she leans more further into the absurd, asking: "how do we find the hole in the wall––the portal––to the path we all crave?" While, "holding both the weight of those trying to destroy the world with the utter futility of it all."
Whatever path she adventures down, the music remains beautifully absorbing, a layered and colourful blending on genres woven together with the fine thread of Liu's striking voice. The latest track pulled from it - the fourth released so far ahead of the album's release this coming Friday - is 'the rules of what an earthling can be', a peculiar and hypnotic three-minutes that immediately draws you into the skewed world that Liu builds across the album's fifteen tracks.
Indicative of the mui zyu's dream-like, achingly pretty craft, it's both enchanting and distant; like a dream you can't hold onto, like the memory of something you know you've forgotten. Listen below.
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