Singaporean Artist Linying Completes The Cycle With “Daylight Blows Into One Door”
In a curious series of events, Singaporean singer-songwriter Linying has gone full circle with her heartfelt new ballad “Daylight Blows Into One Door”. Co-written by Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla, the single explores the concept the balance of happiness and loss, as told from Linying’s first experience with grief.
She says of the song, “When I was 12, my pet rabbit Bunny lay dying in my lap as my brother and I sang Death Cab For Cutie’s ‘I Will Follow You Into The Dark’ to him on an acoustic guitar. Songs and books taught me perspective in sad times from a young age, but a sense of melancholy has always coloured even the happiest moments of my life. When I feel on top of the world is also when I remember that so much of the love and happiness that I think is mine is really only lent to me, to be taken back someday – momentary, like daylight.
I told Chris the gist of this in a tiny room in a New York studio where we wrote across two days while also taking too-long bagel breaks, walking the High Line and talking about panic and distance and love and home. I’m omitting a lot of the grisly details in which I struggle to behave normally in front of him while containing my excitement at working with a musical figure so important to my adolescence… it wasn’t until months later when I was home in Singapore that I looked over at the patio bench we sat on with Bunny, remembered that I’d just written a song about loss with the person who made the song I experienced my first loss to, and realised how much full-on, full-circle, cosmic conspiracy was actually going on.”
Serving as her first taste of her forthcoming debut full-length, “Daylight Blows Into One Door” is a hypnotic and lush piece that showcases Linying’s strength as both a songwriter and storyteller, combining the two medium with a poingant and stunning result.
Listen to the single below and stay tuned for more music:
