Hong Kong-born, Netherlands-based artist Kiana Li takes inspiration from dub, post-industrial and post punk on their first LP, out next month.
gyrofield announces debut album, ‘Great Jobs’, shares single.
Hong Kong-born, Netherlands-based artist Kiana Li takes inspiration from dub, post-industrial and post punk on their first LP, out next month
gyrofield’s debut album ‘Great Jobs’ is coming next month. Listen to the lead single and title track, ‘Great Jobs (Don’t Wanna)’ below.
Out 21st October on their recently launched label Field Research, ‘Great Jobs’ presents 10 new tracks that take inspiration from dub, post-industrial and post punk genres. “Post-punk became the canvas for re-contextualisation and re-expression, whilst soundsystem music was the groundwork”, the Hong Kong-born and Netherlands-based artist Kiana Li said in a press statement. “I am here to pass on inspiration, with due respect.”
Thematically, gyrofield’s debut explores queer identity, empathy and the state of the world. “Many people’s lives are drastically so much worse at the moment”, they said. “My emotions went between confounded, lost, and grasping at ideas of resistance and liberation. I required an outlet immediately, wanting to feel something unravel, and to show the bleeding heart of work. On ‘Great Jobs’ you hear my introspective thoughts, impulses, and dissatisfaction with the world take shape and dissolve at the spotlight… Now the album is done, I’m glad it all happened that way. It was a relief to undergo this sonic experience and make it through”.
‘Great Jobs’ follows May’s ‘Your Flight’ EP, which inaugurated the Field Research imprint. Li has previously released EPs and singles on: Objekt’s Kaspala, with ‘Suspension of Belief’ (2025); FABRICLIVE, with ‘Akin / Mother’ (2025); XL Recordings, with ‘These Heavens’ (2024); Best Intentions, with ‘Flower Burial’, (2024); Metalheadz, with ‘Maybes / Oligarch’ (2023); and the self-release ‘Snake Charmer / Missed Call(s)’ (2023).
