Shu Ying


Shu Ying is a Chinese musician, singer-songwriter, writer and composer. She is a multi-instrumentalist and primarily plays guitar and keyboard.

Career

In 2012, she formed an electronic dance band named Quadruple Cherry as vocalist, guitarist and composer, with members from Little Wizard's former guitarist Wang Kai as drummer and guitarist Wang Xiaoyu of a latter shoegazing band called City Flanker. On April 1, 2013, Quadruple Cherry released an EP with two singles. "Complexion" from this EP was also released by Xing Wai Xing records in the compilation album Wu Cheng Ji, this album was rewarded as the best compilation album of 2014 Chinese Music Media Awards.
In 2014, she joined Undress For Success as keyboardist, a project from former Battle Cattle bassist Laurent. In 2015, she started to work on solo project with the help from Laurent as producer. After releasing several digital singles by herself, she released an solo EP produced by Laurent, Are You Still A Teenager?, with five new tracks. This EP is recorded in Juju's recording studio located in Lane 1639 Huashan Lu. Shu Ying recorded vocal and guitar, Laurent did the drums. Her EP is described as “What a gem, full of anxious aggression and a volatile attitude that weavers between yearning and confrontational, between sarcastic and pungent it's a stellar addition to the artist's catalog, one that may remind some of 90s alt rockers such as PJ Harvey and Liz Phair.”
In the summer of 2017, Shu Ying made a trip to Netherlands and started a one-week recording session with producer Idan Altman. She released her full-length album Girl's Girl's World under Waving Cat Records on October 20, 2017.

Discography