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On her stunning debut album, Technicolour, Jia evokes the grit and stillness of an otherworldly desert, blending intimate storytelling with cinematic drama. She approaches songwriting like a journal, intimate, fragmentary, and unguarded.
Written across her formative years in her twenties, Technicolour traces a period marked by uncertainty, growth, transformation, and self-discovery. Each song feels like a snapshot of a different version of herself, exploring themes of reflection, dissociation, and reintegration through a lens of romantic melancholy. Heartbreak, longing, and the quiet desire for escape linger as recurring threads, defining the album’s emotional landscape.
Echoes of 60s surf and garage rock emerge through reverberating guitars reminiscent of Dick Dale and Link Wray, while Jia channels the cool, enigmatic femininity of Nancy Sinatra and Françoise Hardy. That sensibility is further inspired by modern contemporaries Lana Del Rey, Mazzy Star, Mitski, and Alexandra Savior.
Jia’s writing lingers in the unspoken: glances, silences, and half-finished thoughts—allowing them to carry the weight of the story. There is a deliberate sparseness to her songwriting and a refusal to over-explain. She often explores a tension between vulnerability and detachment or intimacy and distance. Moments of emotional closeness are often undercut by self-awareness or disconnection, giving the album its distinct emotional gravity.
Cinematic influences also play a defining role in Jia’s creative world. Inspired by filmmakers such as David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Wong Kar-Wai, and Jean-Luc Godard, she often kept their films playing in the background of her Toronto apartment while writing and recording, helping shape the album’s atmosphere of faded glamour, longing and surreal romance.
Release Date: May 26, 2026
Available as a high quality .wav file @1411kbps
