Melbourne experimental electronic / pop and performance artist Sui Zhen has unveiled her new single, “Matsudo City Life”. The track is taken from Zhen’s upcoming album Losing, Linda which is set for release Sept 27th via Cascine.
Sui Zhen zooms in on the intersections between human life and technology – how to exist in the digital age, as well as the ways in which we risk losing true sight of ourselves in the process. Her latest chapter, Losing, Linda, pairs her signature inquisitiveness with a surreal electronic pop that possesses a dreamlike quality: vivid, uncanny, and upon close examination, revealing of deep emotional and personal truths. It’s an album that examines loss on multiple levels – from the death of our loved ones, to our widespread societal tendency to disappear within the ones and zeroes of modern life’s tech-driven rush.
“Matsudo City Life”, “the walls of the Love Hotel – titled ‘Paradise Air’ – were made of very thick concrete to keep loud noise in, which worked well for us musicians. Each room was uniquely themed. We were assigned one with faded pink and red tones, a love heart shaped bathtub and maroon carpet. Whilst the room we designated as ‘the studio’ was tiled with cool grey tones, marble and pillared. The city was what locals call a ‘sleeper town’ or bedroom community, which Salarymen would use only for rest. In some ways it was a city full of their dreams and empty of their reality.”
Losing, Linda track list:
1. Another Life
2. Natural Progression
3. Matsudo City Life
4. I Could Be There
5. Mountain Song
6. Being A Woman
7. Different Places
8. Perfect Place (video)
9. Night River Rider
