A home filled with cracked porcelain, a creaky piano, a sinister voice growling, \u201cWhat the *fuck* are you doing here?\u201d Lucy Liyou<\/a> has compared her new album to a \u201chorror house,\u201d and the avant-garde sound artist has clearly done her homework. Mr Cobra<\/em> opens like a dark, cobwebbed staircase leading into a vast and foreboding space, all frantic flute and piano, creaks, and bone-chilling screeches (not to mention a slutty monologue seemingly communicated via Google Translate). Mr Cobra<\/em> evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concr\u00e8te, \u201900s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films. The bespoke blend of influences lends to the record\u2019s personal material: Liyou adapted Mr Cobra<\/em>, she says, from a performance art piece she wrote about \u201ca time back in high school when I fell in love with a predator.\u201d<\/p>\n Listen\/Buy at Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n After Do It Afraid<\/em>, an album that explored the Brooklyn-based singer\u2019s grief following the death of her father, Yaya Bey<\/a> wondered, \u201cWhat part of that ache is specifically Black?\u201d On Fidelity<\/em>, she ponders the displacement of Black communities from her native New York, the complicated nature of relationships\u2014familial, romantic, and platonic\u2014and the deep joy we\u2019re promised as we work through it all. Her resounding vocals melt over the crackly interiors of R&B, reggae, and Jersey club. As she sings on \u201cEgyptian Musk,\u201d you get the feeling that \u201cThe world is so cold, but baby it\u2019s warm in here.\u201d<\/p>\n Listen on Apple Music<\/a> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pitchfork.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A home filled with cracked porcelain, a creaky piano, a sinister voice growling, \u201cWhat the *fuck* are you doing here?\u201d Lucy Liyou has compared her new album to a \u201chorror house,\u201d and the avant-garde sound artist has clearly done her homework. Mr Cobra opens like a dark, cobwebbed staircase leading into a vast and foreboding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2380528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[358477],"class_list":["post-2380527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-out-this-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12-New-Albums-You-Should-Listen-to-Now-Tokischa-Nine.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380529,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380527\/revisions\/2380529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Yaya Bey: Fidelity<\/em> [Drink Sum Wtr]<\/h2>\n
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Buy at Rough Trade<\/a><\/p>\nKuru: Backstage<\/em>\u00a0Hologram<\/em>\u00a0[deadAir]<\/h2>\n
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