yeule

yeule

Since 2012 · Singapore

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softscars (2023)

softscars pulls yeule's sound away from the purely digital glitch-pop of earlier releases and toward something closer to shoegaze and '90s alternative rock, guitars now sitting alongside the processed vocals and electronic textures that had defined their earlier work. "daisies" is a clear example of that blend, a fragile vocal melody riding a hazy wall of guitar that wouldn't sound out of place on an early-'90s British indie record. "x x x" and "sulky baby" show the same instincts applied at different tempos and intensities. It's a record about vulnerability rendered through genre-blur rather than through any single stylistic signature, and it marked a clear turning point in how yeule's music was described critically.

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softscars · 2023

yeule is the recording name of Nat Ćmiel, a musician who grew up between Singapore and the UK and built an early following through hazy, glitch-inflected electronic pop released via SoundCloud and small labels in the late 2010s. Their music has consistently blurred the line between digital fragility and genuine emotional rawness, often built around themes of dissociation, identity, and online existence.

Glitch Princess (2022) brought that sound to a wider audience, and softscars (2023) pushed further toward guitar-based, shoegaze-inflected production, a shift Ćmiel has connected in interviews to a renewed interest in '90s alternative rock alongside their electronic influences. yeule's work moves fluidly between ambient, pop, and noisier guitar textures without treating any single genre as a fixed home base, and they have continued to build a devoted, terminally online fanbase that has followed the music's shifts as closely as any single genre label. Ćmiel has also spoken about virtual identity and online avatars as a recurring theme across their work, treating the digital and the physical self as equally real rather than as opposites.