March 2021 – Singapore – Indie singer-songwriter cehryl builds up to the release of her new EP ‘time machine’, April 9th, 2021 via Nettwerk, with a music video for her latest single “outside the party, inside the dream”. Fans can stream the track here cehryl.ffm.to/outsidetheparty and watch the music video here: youtu.be/MAsrJVB23nU
Warm and enveloping, “outside the party, inside the dream” captures the soft, tranquil beauty of dreams themselves – peaceful, slightly bizarre, and cautious not to be disturbed. The tempo, a breezy 5/4 roll, makes the song easy to sink into, a dreamy quality that this song and much of cehryl’s music goes for. The video features her and three of her friends in a compilation of raw footage of their adventures together, and of them dragging their suitcases as they go their separate ways.
The Hong Kong-based multi-hyphenate creative cehryl has a voice as dulce and mellifluous as the songs she produces and writes to. Stories that explore the complexity of human emotion fill her dreamy, genre-fusing tracks, where her lyrical flair and classical training are on full display. From the strings she rips to the production, recording, and mixing, cehryl orchestrates every part of her songs. Her painfully relatable sonic gifts have gained her an international community of fans across the globe, and find her constantly revising and refining her sound. Her music videos for “Satellite” and “Moon Eyes” are heavily inspired by celebrated Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai, and mirror his films with cehryl’s own nuanced phantasmagoria—a fitting reflection of her expansive sound.
cehryl has made waves in Southeast Asia with her previous releases “philadelphia” and “angels (emily)” from the upcoming ‘time machine’. Her music videos have been added to rotation on Channel V Asia, MTV Asia, and Very TV, and the tracks featured on radio stations such as Clockenflap (HK) and Power 98 (SG). She has multiple features on outlets including ANTARA NEWS (ID), LionhearTV (PH), and Asia Live 365 (SG, TH). From here, the only direction cehryl can go is up.
Following high school in the UK, cehryl moved to the United States to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston and, post-college, found herself in Los Angeles forming a tight-knit scene with friends Zack Villere, Mulherin, Dijon, Alex Szotak, and Soft Glas. “Moon Eyes” and single “Hide n Seek” follow her buzzy 2019 debut album ‘Slow Motion’, which garnered her praise from Paper, Earmilk, i-D, Complex, and more. After touring with Still Woozy and Ravyn Lenae she was slated to be on the road this summer opening for Jeremy Zucker in the U.S. and for Cavetown this fall. Both tours are on hold due to COVID-19 precautions for now, but cehryl still has plans in store for 2021.
‘time machine’ Tracklist:
1. philadelphia
2. angels (emily)
3. laundry
4. paprika
5. callus
6. outside the party, inside the dream
Watch the video for “philadelphia” here: youtu.be/nCOlOZAdAng
Listen to “outside the party, inside the dream” here: cehryl.ffm.to/outsidetheparty
