Earlier this month, Eva Liu announced her debut album as mui zyu, Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century, with the lead single “Ghost With A Peach Skin.” Today, she’s back with another song from it, the opener and quasi-title track, a sweeping and fractured ballad that pulses and builds over five minutes. Here’s what Liu said about the track:

Rotten Bun brings us into the fantasy world where the record is set. Me, you, us, we, ‘the protagonist’ – takes in their surroundings of mouldy vegetation, witchcraft, magic and demons. The ‘rotten bun’ refers to the rotting heart of the lonesome warrior. We have to overcome these initial fiends who mock, bully, hurt by becoming strong enough whereby we are unaffected by their ‘rotten tongues’… A bit like a tutorial to a video-game where you are guided through the introduction and still have to destroy a final boss as part of your training. Lots of the metaphors in the record have been inspired by Chinese folklore in particular Pu Songlin’s ‘Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

Watch a video for it below.

Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century is out 2/24 via Father/Daughter Records.