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Today, Hong Kong-based artist cehryl shares her new single “angles (emily)”, co-produced by Andrew Sarlo. The track comes just under 3 minutes long but the heavenly dream pop will leave everlasting effects. cehryl’s soft vocals melt perfectly into the lush layers on the first leg of the song. The second leg of the song cuts through the dreaminess for a spunkier finish. With its sweet and jangly guitar strums, “angles (emily)” has a pure earnestness to it that’ll warm you up.

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On her latest single ‘Superbloom,’ cehryl finds young love quickly losing its spark.

Amid a restless haze, the Hong Kong-born singer reminisces about late June ‘under the orange moon’ with her crush, her naivety underscored by references to cartoons, wallpaper and flowers. But by the time Sunday evening rolls around, ‘all the cracks began to show’ and so they part, leaving cehryl jaded but a lot wiser for the experience.

As she explains via press release:

‘’Superbloom’ is about flowers dying, about disappointment following a naive, light-hearted love. The verses reference cartoons and colours and the innocent child-like beginnings of everything and the chorus reveals the ending. The song is about the death of an immature love.’

cehryl’s debut album slow motion is out now.

Intro to Cehryl week

I’m constantly in the search of new music -- browsing Spotify’s New Releases, glancing through Pitchfork’s Best New Music, asking friends for recommendations -- but there’s a je ne sais quoi to finding That Unknown Artist on your own, their music like a secret paradise for your revels and your revels alone.

That’s how I felt about stumbling upon cehryl, the stage name of Hong-Kong native and Berklee alumnus Cheryl Chow who now has her roots in Los Angeles. Stereotypical of most Asians, cehryl’s path to music was met with reproach by her parents, but her passion for composition -- instilled at a young age with guitar and piano along with inspiration from artists like The Beatles and Alicia Keys -- only blossomed as Soundcloud and Bandcamp became frequent outlets for her to release music as an independent artist.

Since then, cehryl’s songs have evolved into these diary entries written in the glistening sheen of a dream, braiding incomparable sonic and lyrical motifs, and that was the reason why I (and, I hope, you) fall in love with cehryl. Not because of her ear-caressing mezzo or blurry, vintage video aesthetic, but because of the details that make her music more than a Car Jam Session to the Billboard Hot 100, each track instead a story worthy of losing yourself in with pain and regret, love and joy.

So to share a world too beautiful and complex to be kept a secret, here is cehryl with Slow Motion.

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Now for the less interesting part of the intro… feel free to skip because you won’t be missing much.

My name? Austin Nguyen

Do I live on social media? Twitter/Tumblr: No. Instagram: yes, sadly.

Age? Unprepared for college (17)

What have I done? You can find some of my prior work on HS Insider & Reflektor magazine. And a Sea of Songs…

What should I be doing? Working on college apps.