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Malaysian alt-R&B singer Yuna debuts the highly-anticipated new full-length album Y5, a genre-spanning collection of songs written in the timespan between the pandemic and October 2022, ranging from R&B to soul and moments of disco. Tonight she’ll perform at Peppermint Club in Los Angeles to celebrate release day, and Parish Room at House of Blues in Anaheim tomorrow, November 12, to round out her recent West Coast tour dates.

The culminating Y5 album features four previously unreleased tracks and an interlude as the final installment of her pentalogy of EPs released this year as part of an innovative new release strategy to allow her fans more time to enjoy the music in easily digestible portions. The new songs on Y5 include the subtly uplifting “Relax Your Mind,” her latest single “Can’t Get Over You,” and the vulnerable album closer “Enough.”

“I wanted to make it possible so that the songs have equal attention on them,” Yuna explains. “There is a certain connection on each EP and a theme that’s going on. My goal for each EP is to bring something specific to life. Y1 is very soul, very R&B, but also throwback-y and lo-fi. Y2 is more straight R&B. On the third one, I was inspired by growing up listening to The Cardigans and wanted to do something where I was playing guitar. It all goes back to me doing something I enjoy, instead feeling forced into something that’s a single. I wanted to try just writing from the heart and making something that is 100 percent mine. Every song represents something I love that I want to share with the world.”

Following ten years on the road, the pandemic became a blessing in disguise for Yuna, who spent 18 months back home in Kuala Lumpur, where the slowed pace helped re-balance her priorities and shifted how Yuna wanted to approach her career as a musician going forward. It was there, in the home studio she’d created out of her father’s office, that she decided to self-produce Y5 independently.

Having released albums through both major and indie labels, Yuna found the creative experience of Y5 wildly freeing. “Making this album takes me back to that time when I was an independent artist making music in my bedroom in Malaysia,” Yuna reflects. “I want to focus on making things that make me happy, instead of the things that make me stressed out. I want to find that balance. With this new album, I feel reborn as an artist.”

Since her self-titled 2012 debut album and her Pharrell Williams-produced breakthrough hit “Live Your Life,” Yuna has released three studio albums and two EPs, and collaborated with artists like Usher, G-Eazy, Tyler, the Creator, Sweat$ and Lil Simz. Over the course of her career thus far, Yuna has developed a sense of authenticity in her music and become a voice for a vast global fanbase. It is a direct result of hard work and confidence, and she’s survived the ups and down of the music industry and come out the other side as a skilled independent artist who wants to do things her own way. This year she launched #Yunationals, an official fan club for her audience that allows her to connect with listeners and share stories. Her impressive, inspiring journey from aspiring musician to established artist and producer who owns her own music is evident on Y5, an album that opens a new chapter in Yuna’s artistry.

Yuna has been featured in NPR, Vogue, ELLE, The Cut, MTV, Forbes and The Guardian, to name a few, and has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Seth Meyers and The Daily Show, etc.

For more information on Yuna, visit yunamusic.com.

Y5 Track Listing:

1. Intro
2. Hello
3. Pantone 17 13 30
4. Cigarette
5. Girl U Used 2 Know
6. 24 Hours
7. Make A Move
8. Don't Wanna Know
9. Risk It All
10. Summer Love
11. Make Believe
12. Fool 4 U
13. Relax Your Mind
14. Interlude: Piano
15. Can't Get Over You
16. Kiss The Moon
17. Enough