Lucy Liyou has announced a new album, MR COBRA, the album version of her semi-autobiographical theatrical work Mister Cobra. It’s set to arrive on April 17 via Orange Milk, a few weeks after the solo theater-music performance of Mister Cobra debuts at Performance Space New York on March 28. Listen to two playful tracks from it, ‘Yoohoo (An Overture)’ and ‘Babygirl’, below.
“Sometimes trying to adhere to the ‘facts’ of my experiences made other emotional truths feel distorted,” Liyou explained in a statement. “For MR COBRA, I wanted to give myself the agency to distort all truths to see what jumped out to me as truthful in a reactive, and sometimes illusionary or misleading, sense–in all of this faulty rawness. I was really drawn to sounds and images that felt satisfyingly ‘false’–I was drawn to Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures, my favorite drag queens in Los Angeles who magically bombed every Monday, Ryan Trecartin’s A Family Finds Entertainment, Sunik Kim’s Potential, and so much more. I wanted frenzy that felt disembodying–so disembodying that this time of my life could conjure a laugh.”
Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Lucy Liyou.
MR COBRA Cover Artwork:
MR COBRA Tracklist:
1. Yoohoo (An Overture)
2. Babygirl
3. 아저씨
4. Gojira Dearest
5. Romeopathy
6. 911, A Kidnapping
7. Lair Lair Pants On Faire
8. Constrictor (Haha)
9. Old Macdonald Had A Charm
10. Crisis (Identity)
11. Self-Mutilating Missus
12. “Finale (Transition)!
