260421 [Interview] Marvin: Yves on NAIL, Turning Thirty, and the Art of Letting the Body Lead
There are artists who evolve, and then there are artists who shed. Yves — the South Korean singer and former LOONA member who has spent years crafting some of K-pop’s most sonically adventurous output — is firmly in the second category. With NAIL, her new EP, she isn’t pivoting or rebranding. She’s peeling back, going deeper, getting closer to something harder to name. The project moves through haze and low-end tension, through imagined afterlives and the electric blur of a dancefloor, through collaborations with Lolo Zouaï and Lexie Liu that don’t just feature, they expand. Turning thirty became the inciting incident. Instinct became the method. And somewhere between the perfectionism she can’t quite shake and the chaos she keeps reaching for, NAIL found its shape.
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