Liance

The narrative songwriting project of Brighton musician James Joshua Li (also of <a href="spotify:artist:6Mj3duXeMTlT8wGsEb1Okb" data-name="Ministry of Interior Spaces">Ministry of Interior Spaces</a>), <a href="spotify:artist:5RCL94Yh7xnuTalSsgMepX" data-name="Liance">Liance</a> tells honest personal stories through concrete lyrics and lush arrangements.


Liance’s first album, <a href="spotify:album:0qLwlQzdgsOUUgln5uFEgc" data-name="Bronze Age of the Nineties">Bronze Age of the Nineties</a> (2015) is a stripped down high-context folk album about the transformative power of memory.


<a href="spotify:album:3iHi8rBMFv9CZQp5EWHgTa" data-name="The Rat House">The Rat House</a> (2018) is a dark folk EP serving as an appendix to Bronze Age of the Nineties. It tells short stories from West Michigan of domestic escape, ending relationships, and college campus tragedy.


<a href="spotify:album:24DRWu288zPVewjzUHtb4t" data-name="This Painting Doesn&#39;t Dry">This Painting Doesn&#39;t Dry</a> (2021) is Liance&#39;s second album. It&#39;s about the intersection between personal experience and human history and the infinite meaning within. While rooted in honest personal storytelling, This Painting Doesn&#39;t Dry draws directly from seemingly disparate influences such as early 20th-century British painters, historic civil war, Marilynne Robinson, David Berman, Cindy Sherman, Adrian Tomine, climate action, and the Black Death.


(PS. I wrote all the above in third person - it feels rather strange and unbecoming)


For sync or licensing please contact: liancemusic&#64;gmail.com


Countryside photos by <a href="spotify:artist:6fsUe68biDsnK9f8G41rNO" data-name="Alex Kozobolis">Alex Kozobolis</a>