Luna Li, the Korean-Canadian singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, will release her debut album, Duality, on March 4th, 2022 via In Real Life (Liv.e, Peggy Gou, CLIP) along with the news, Luna Li has shared, album track “Silver Into Rain.”  The track is about longing to become a better self. In the song I’m lamenting all of the things about myself that I feel are holding me back in life, and how sometimes it can feel like everything you touch turns bad, turns to rain. Bea came in with the most angelic voice and perfect sentiment for the song, and brought it to a really brilliant place,” says li.

Growing up Korean-Canadian in Toronto, Luna Li was always immersed in art. Her mom ran a music school where a collection of instruments were always within arms reach. She started her classical training on the piano before graduating to violin. When she discovered the harp, she realized that the skills from her formal training were not only transferable, but expansive. She mastered the electric guitar, then learned that adding synths and programming drum loops could unlock a new dimension to her music. An arranger at heart, Li developed a new lexicon for her instruments to communicate with each other. Honing an aptitude for experimentation, she changes her process for each song, recording her first takes and morphing her poems into lyrics.

After dropping out of university after a single semester, she became a mainstay of Toronto’s indie rock scene which lead to the creation of Luna Li. Her forthcoming debut album Duality (featuring Jay Som, Dreamer Isioma, and beabadoobee) wrestles otherworldly ambitions to the ground, and embraces the notions of vulnerability and identity in order to better understand the collective. Capable of both detonating an incendiary riff or slipping into the splendor of celestial strings, the album’s power lies in its most delicate moments. “The songs never quite have only one feeling,” she says. “Each song had some element of light and dark — where there’s happiness there’s still uncertainty; where there’s anxiety there’s also beauty; and where there’s tension there’s freedom.”

Luna Li Tour 2022

March 8 – Chop Suey – Seattle, WA
March 9 – Holocene – Portland, OR
March 11 – Popscene at Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA
March 12 – The Echo – Los Angeles, CA
March 13 – Valley Bar – Phoenix, AZ
March 22 – Baby’s All Right – Brooklyn, NY
March 23 – The Lounge at World Cafe Live – Philadelphia, PA
March 25 – Songbyrd – Washington, DC
April 27 – Mills Hardware – Hamilton, Ontario
April 29 – Axis Club – Toronto, Ontario
April 30 – Bar Le Ritz – Montreal, Québec
Track List
In Real Life

Cherry Pit
Boring Again (feat. Jay Som)
Afterglow
Trying
Flower (In Full Bloom) (feat. Dreamer Isioma)
Alone But Not Lonely
Silver Into Rain (feat. beabadoobee)
What You’re Thinking
Star Stuff
Magic
Misery Moon
Space
Lonely/Lovely

Pre-order Duality LP by Luna Li HERE