Lucinda Chua’s debut album YIAN is scheduled to touch down Friday, March 24. And on Wednesday, the London-based singer and sound artist shared the record’s closer, the fourth and final single of the project’s release cycle. “Something Other Than Years,” featuring Singaporean cyborg-songwriter yeule, is a fitting coda to YIAN’s glacial symphony.
Like the rest of the record, it’s pensive and patient, moving with a naturally predetermined ebb and flow that would be wrong to disrupt.
Above languid piano arpeggios and a string drone sparsely adorned with harmony, Chua and yeule engage in a call and response heavy with longing.
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