mui zyu Joins Katie Malco on New Single ‘When You’re Sleeping’

Artist Spotlight alumni Katie Malco and mui zyu have teamed up for ‘When You’re Sleeping’, a stirring song about living in the same house with your ex. The British Hong Kong artist also features on the song’s accompanying video by Tom Levinge. Check it out below.

“Have you ever broken up with someone, but you have to carry on living together for a while?” Malco said in a statement. “I think it’s a pretty relatable experience in the current climate, when you cohabit with someone, you might not be able to move out straight away. So, then you just have to change your entire dynamic with your now-ex and figure out how to be around each other in uncomfortably close quarters, with all this unbearable tension.”

“So that’s why I wrote ‘When You’re Sleeping’ from the perspective of the person that ends the relationship,” Malco added. “We’re so used to hearing songs from the viewpoint of the heartbroken one, the perceived “victim” – and it’s rarer to hear from the person who makes that difficult life-changing decision.”

Of collaborating with mui zyu, Malco commented: “I had been following Mui Zyu’s musical output for a while, and I knew her voice would be perfect for what I was going for with this song. Not only did she sing vocals and some beautiful harmonies, but she also sent stems with all these dark atmospheric sounds she recorded using a hologram chroma console, which really placed the whole song in this Mui Zyu world. I love how it turned out.”

Last year, Malco released two collaborations, the SOAK-assisted ‘Babette’ and the Laura Stevenson-featuring ‘Fatal Attraction’.