Full Circle: YL Hooi & The Journey From Tape To Wax
Untitled, the debut album by local electronica artist YL Hooi, was Triple R’s Album of the Week just last week. Initially released through Altered States Tapes as a cassette in late 2019, it’s been re-issued on deluxe vinyl through Efficient Space.
Full Circle’s Millú chats with the artist about
Untitled’s journey from tape to wax, collaborating with LST’s Tarquin Manek, and the gear she used to achieve the ethereal, dream-like sounds that run rampant on her “collage-y” work of art.
Photo: courtesy of Efficent Space
‘Untitled’ is the debut album from local artist Ying-Li Hooi. It offers a uniquely transportive experience. The opening track Title sets the tone and tempo, emerging out of undulating sine waves and cavernous, indistinct incantations. YL Hooi s compositions are occasionally rhythmic, as with the soft samba backing of W/O Love, and always immersive. Songs draw on atmospheric dub, post-punk, icy DIY, electronic minimalism and radiophonic pop experiments. At the centre of the record is a cover of Love Joy s Stranger . YL Hooi offers a vaporised version of the lovers rock lament, a hazy and haunting distillation of the original.