About

Luna Li is a Korean-Canadian singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who's equally skilled at producing sweetly psychedelic indie pop tunes and compact, beat-driven instrumentals. Though she released her debut EP in 2017, she attained viral success a few years later, when she began posting brief videos of homemade instrumentals online, collecting ten of them on the 2021 EP Jams. Li has performed or collaborated with artists such as Japanese Breakfast, Moby, and Beabadoobee, and her debut album, Duality, arrived in 2022. Following a move to Los Angeles, she released her second album, When a Thought Grows Wings, in 2024.

Li's trademark elasticity as a musician is on full display here as she stuns not only as singer and songwriter, but also on guitar, harp and flute. Her flute solo on "Minnie Says (Would You Be My)," which feels like a glamorous '70s dream, is transcendent, simultaneously delicate as a mourning dove and deft as a bounding cheetah, while "Fear Is an Illusion!" is a Disney fairytale. Li's voice flutters and lilts on certain tracks and stretches brassy on others, like "I Imagine," a celebration of fantasy, the worthiness of all that takes place in our heads. "I imagine a harmonic bliss," she sings on "Enigami," one of the album's two atmospheric interludes, spending time with enigmas and loops and dreams. Her confidence is unmistakable in her words and in the measured production (tackled alongside Andrew Lappin). And as she appears, like a daydream, she herself daydreams, builds up worlds for us to enter alongside her, as if asking us to celebrate the moment of change, to not bypass it. — via Exclaim!

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Label: In Real Life
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Lavender Version
Released: 2025
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Indie Pop, Indie Rock

File under: Alternative / Indie / Pop
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