“Lucinda Chua takes us on a journey of compassion and self-acceptance on YIAN”
“On her debut album, the London-based cellist and composer explores her experiences as a child of the Chinese diaspora. Musically and conceptually, the record evokes hazy, in-between spaces.”
“YIAN, the debut album from Lucinda Chua, combines orchestral melodies with an airy sense of hope. Exploring a new freedom, Chua’s new record feels delicate but gains strength throughout by pushing old reliances aside. Despite her calling out to an unspecified ‘you’ throughout the album, the most important relationship on YIAN is between herself and her cello. The London-based artist tries to bala”