In 2010, Father/Daughter Records was born out of a simple idea that independent music thrives when artists are given space to take risks, experiment, and build community. To mark its 15th anniversary, the label invited current artists and longtime alumni to draw from the catalog and recast the songs in their own light.
Today, London’s mui zyu opens the series with a spectral take on Shamir’s “Astral Plane,” first heard on his Revelations album— a turning point where he shifted from pop success toward rawer, more DIY songwriting inspired by outsider influences. Where Shamir’s version bristled with restless energy, mui zyu stretches it into something dreamlike, drifting like an ethereal hallucination full of shimmering textures and ghostly ascents that slot exquisitely into their catalog of dreamy doom. It’s an apt beginning for a collection that links the label's diverse catalog, reminding us how songs can evolve over time, becoming both a tribute and something entirely new.
mui zyu's take on "Astral Plane" is the first of six covers to be rolled out weekly. The next F/D Fifteen song arrives October 30th.
“I immediately loved the imagery in the song and the kind of classic 1950s feel. To me it could be about escaping from the material world (hell) to the astral plane (a kind of alternative heaven) with the playful bleakness of having to 'work on the astral plane'. We tried to create these plane-y textures in the production to represent that space, and have moments in the music climbing up to, and falling down from, them to tell the story.”
- mui zyu
"I don't even know where to begin.... I'm SO deeply honored. That song was actually my least favorite from 'Revelations', I don't know what possessed me to make a reggae-ish song, but my mental health was in a bad place at that time so I was just doing anything. This cover made me appreciate my song for the first time like.... ever? Love it."
- Shamir