Yeule

yeule is the Singapore-born, nonbinary musician, performance artist, and painter also known as Nat Ćmiel. First self-releasing songs at age 14, they have since emerged as a cult art icon, whose experimental pop songs of emotional excavation and self-reclamation have attracted a dedicated following of fellow outsiders who seek catharsis from physical and mental struggle. A chameleonic auteur guided by a multidisciplinary ethos, they craft entire worlds and personas through their music, weaving together everything from the classical canon, hypermodern internet cultures, academic theory, the esoteric, and their own carnal desires. From cathartic punk riffs to ethereal electronics, yeule crafted Soft Scars, their debut album on Ninja Tune released in September 2023. On the blistering project, there is the anatomy of their long held emotional wounds, making for their most penetrating and daring work yet. By liberating their repressed memories through images of blood, flames, porcelain, and angel wings, they honour the way that pain has shaped their past selves and built their instinct for self-protection. Despite their total isolation and alienation of self, they plugged into the internet and somehow still manage to obtain a degree in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins College in London. They poured out their anguish through sonic crystallisations, handwritten and subversively painted dissections of what the yeule project embues artistically for Ćmiel.