Lucy Liyou Announces New Album 'Mr Cobra' and Shares Two Tracks
Lucy Liyou is releasing 'Mr Cobra' on April 17 via Orange Milk, an adaptation of her semi-autobiographical theatrical piece. Check out the first singles.
The California-based ambient musician and sound artist, Lucy Liyou, is back with new music. She’s turning her semi-autobiographical theatrical work Mr Cobra, which debuts at Performance Space New York on March 28, into a proper album. Mr Cobra is out April 17 via Orange Milk. Check out two new songs from the record, “Yoohoo (An Overture)” and “Babygirl,” below.
"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,” explained Liyou. “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."
Mr Cobra follows Liyou’s 2025 album Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name, and was written, recorded, and produced by Liyou herself. She describes Mr Cobra as a revisionist retelling of a period in high school during which she “fell in love with a predator.” Over its 12-song tracklist, the album works through varying forms of shame, including anger, disappointment, and dark humor. “I want people to laugh at me and with me,” she said in a press release, “to make this moment in my life feel like a gross, important, and unimportant spectacle.”
Read Pitchfork’s review of Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name.
Mr Cobra tracklist:
01 Yoohoo (An Overture)
02 Babygirl
03 아저씨
04 Gojira Dearest
05 Romeopathy
06 911, a Kidnapping
07 Lair Lair Pants on Faire
08 Constrictor (Haha)
09 Old Macdonald Had a Charm
10 Crisis (Identity)
11 Self-Mutilating Missus
12 Finale (Transition)!
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