London singer LucindaChua talks her debut album ‘YIAN’ and harnessing the power of being understated.
On her album, these mediations are drawn out by long stretches of production and instrumentals creating an endless-seeming soundscape where it feels like some inner work can finally happen. “In creating those pauses or those moments of breath,” Chua says, “it's like you are inviting people to lean in.” These are songs of healing and searching — for love, for home, and if not home, a midway place where a truer self can emerge.
I think it's something that has always been a background task in my life. Definitely having family in the East and having family in the West [created] this feeling of in-betweenness. But I would say in relation to this record, it was probably in the lockdown. I was due to go on tour with FKA twigs. We had a big festival year tour planned, and obviously everything ground to a halt. I think my response to [lockdown] was like, "Okay, I need to make something or do something.
I guess on a really fundamental level, we are humans looking for unconditional love or an emotional connection or a sense of belonging. But maybe what I've realized is in order to find that you really need to know yourself. Because what that means, what that love or what that acceptance or what that belonging looks like is going to be different for all of us because we're all different.
You worked with a lot of other collaborators of Asian descent — what was it like to explore these themes with people who may have gone through these experiences like you?
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