If you’ve had fun playing with the custom IG filter for “Better” and singing your heart out to “Alone”, you’ll absolutely adore Dominic Chin’s debut EP, “License to Cry”.

The Singaporean pop artiste has finally released the long-awaited album today via Umami Records.

Containing a total of 7 tracks, the EP serves as “an extension” of the 24-year-old singer-songwriter/producer, documenting the early stages of self-discovery in his life.

“It was always difficult for me to verbalise my feelings growing up because I didn’t ever want to give myself away and reveal my vulnerability to others. I feared that they would judge me or find me a burden, and so this album is in a way, me talking about what I didn’t want to talk about,” he said.

“In the process of making the songs, we always made it a point to make the song not sound too much as what it would lyrically seem to be. 

“For example, HERE is a mid-tempo and “springy” type of song, but it talks about me missing my late grandmother. SHY is a high energy EDM song, but it talks about my paranoia and insomnia,” he added, saying that the recording process was therapeutic for him as it allowed him to confront some of the personal traumas in his life.

The EP’s focus track, “Cry”, is an R&B track with a bit of a late 1990s pop vibe that delivers the message it’s OK to cry, even as you’re told to “man up.”

Chin explains, “It’s about being yourself and breaking free of the fear and shame from having to conform to others’ silly expectations and rules.”

The track list for “License to Cry” is as below:
1. SHY
2. HERE
3. CRY
4. AWARE
5. BETTER
6. ALONE
7. CLSE2U

Take a listen to all seven songs right here: https://www.umamirecords.sg/license-to-cry/

Singaporean singer Dominic Chin sure is making fans anticipate his debut EP more and more with the recent release of yet another single off the album.

Called “Alone”, it is the sixth single from his upcoming seven-track EP “License to Cry”.

“The song is about my anxiety order and how it affects all the relationships in my life,” the singer shared in a statement. 

“Finding love and peace with good healthy relationships but feeling tremendously undeserving of it, resulting in me wanting to sabotage the relationship. The song talks about feeling conflicted about my relationships, being totally defeated and yearning for some help while I fight my battles with feeling disorientated by all that is going on in my mind.”

Adding that it is not a song meant to uplift anybody, he clarified, “It’s a song to let people who struggle with anxiety issues like me to know that they are not alone, and that I too struggle with it on a day to day basis and I’m still here.”

To really get the feel of the song, why not sing along to it? Just click play on the official lyrics video below and sing your heart out!

“License to Cry” will be released via Singaporean indie label Umami Records this 9 October.

Following that, Dominic will be making his debut show at the Esplanade Singapore on 26 December 2020, making this Christmas season a truly wonderful time for his fans.

Called “Better”, the song is described as “a poppy, free-spirited song about the joys of being high on love”.