Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name is an album I wanted to make since college. I began most of these songs when I was 19 in my dorm room, but I struggled to finish them. I didn’t feel skilled enough as a songwriter and a producer. Finishing this music now, almost 6-7 years later, has been interesting. It is nice to know that there are ideas here that I can still stand by. But the differences in my emotional state, then and now, made this process more difficult than I expected.
Most of these songs were originally about my parents. They were about wanting to be loved and accepted by my parents as a closeted transgender young adult. I tried recording some of these songs with their original lyrics but felt a dissonance. I don’t feel this wish to be accepted by my parents anymore. I have already accepted their love as pretty conditional. I don’t feel the need to tread that territory again for a while.
I fell in love with someone for the first time a few years ago. I have been with that person for over 2 years now. He’s moving soon and we know that’s the end of our time together, that the relationship is now complete. It’s strange because the desire I had for my parents to want me seems to have found a new space in the desire I… more
OM 2025 (thank you seth + keith <3)
Written, Arranged, Recorded, Produced by Lucy Liyou
Mixed by Andrew Weathers
Mastered by Cleo Henman
Mastered (Vinyl) by Ruben Radlauer
Vocals on “Arrested” and “Imagine Kiss” by Mingjia Chen
Vocals on “Imagine Kiss” by G. Brenner
Saxophone on “Jokes About Marriage” by Cole Pulice
Field Recording on “Jokes About Marriage” by Andrew Weathers
Artwork + Layout by Seth Graham
Liner Notes by Cecily Chen
Poem by Rodney E. Dailey II
