gyrofield turns post-punk mirror on herself for debut album Great Jobs

Where the club tracks leaned on sound system weight, Great Jobs pulls from dub, post-industrial and post-punk instead – genres Li describes as “the canvas for re-contextualisation and re-expression, whilst sound system music was the groundwork.”

The result touches EBM, DNB, IDM without settling into any of them: unconventional time signatures, cascading beat science, halftime sway, sound design that keeps finding new corners to detonate.

It’s also the most exposed she’s been. “When I was younger I’d make music which reinforced my convictions, love, and my own identity as a queer person,” Li says. “It was sometimes harrowing to see myself through the magic mirror – all flaws and angst and inadequacy. I felt this intimately whilst writing the album. It was all a part of me at some point, but having excised and dissected these characters within, I could resign myself to the moving picture of identity – the flowing stream.”

The introspection sits alongside something wider – a response to a world that keeps giving her less to work with. “Many people’s lives are drastically so much worse at the moment,” she says. “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.”

The album’s first taste is the single ‘Great Jobs (Don’t Wanna)’, out now. Live, she’s already ticked off a US debut at Dripping and a first live show at MUTEK Montreal; next up she plays Unsound Krakow (8/10), No Bounds Sheffield (10/10), C2C Torino (30/10), Unsound London (28/11) and Trans Musicales Rennes (4/12).

“Now the album is done, I’m glad it all happened that way,” Li says. “It was a relief to undergo this sonic experience and make it through.” Turbulence has rarely sounded this together.

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