Philadelphia based artist Lucy Liyou synthesizes field recordings, text-to-speech readings, poetry and elements from Korean folk opera into sonic narratives that explore the implications of Orientalism and Westernisation. Though their music reflects the work of genres such as post industrial and musique concrète, Lucy Liyou is greatly influenced by audiobooks as well as music from the Impressionist period and Neoclassical period. Lucy Liyou’s debut project A Hope I Had, which caught the attention of South London based artist Klein, was a sonic examination of hereditary depression in Asian families. Their following project Welfare, released in March by Klein’s label ijn inc, is an analysis of the colonialist concept of self-care. Most recently, they premiered their new project Hey Jackie at the 2020 Avantwhatever Festival in July.