Venice Qin’s Debut Album ‘奔月 Moonlanding’ is Out Now Alongside New Single ‘Angel’
Venice Qin has officially landed.
Today marks the reveal of Qin’s highly-anticipated debut album 奔月 Moonlanding – released via Sony Music Australia. 奔月 Moonlanding is where Venice finally touches down, and spoiler: it’s not on Earth. It’s a planet built from contradictions – East meets West, Erhu meets hyper-pop, heartbreak meets turbo BPM.
The album’s title, 奔月 (literally “rushing to the moon”), draws on the same mythology celebrated each year during the Autumn Moon Festival – when mooncakes are shared under the glow of the full moon in honour of reunion, longing, and the legendary flight of Chang’e, the moon goddess. For Qin, it’s more than folklore: it’s a metaphor for escape, transformation, and finding a home in the in-between.
On the album, Venice says: “I’ve always struggled with identity and questioned where I sit among cultures, social groups and especially in music. However, in 奔月 Moonlanding, I’ve found my footing. This album has such a wild mixture of energy, sonics and topics, but all of it is deeply me. Ultimately, it is the journey of me wrestling between multiple parts of myself, and finally accepting that it is the combination of all of these things that makes me who I am.
From classic heartbreak to club-night delusion, this record holds all my phases. All my mess. All my magic. There’s chaos, there’s catharsis, there’s even a warped Dannii Minogue moment because, of course, there is.
If you’re a pop fiend like me, this one’s got it all – big sounds, big feelings, bigger fantasy. I’m not here to make chill background music. I’m here to serve alien-girlie realness with no fear of going full camp, full brat, full heart.”
Alongside the album comes Venice’s latest single, Angel – a lustful, volatile track inspired by a toxic relationship she fell into after relocating from New Zealand to Sydney. It’s the moment the album kicks into motion.
“This one’s about the war inside – the tug-of-war between every version of me. Angel is me taking ownership, not just of the good parts, but the messy ones too. It’s about facing the chaos, holding it close, and saying: yep, love ya boo! This is where the album takes off, where the story begins to unfold.”
The Angel music video, shot in Ordos, China – a ghost city located in Inner Mongolia – transforms that story into something visceral. Empty deserts, desolate roads, buildings and town squares, a world built for love and never inhabited: the perfect stage for a song about isolation after heartbreak.
Venice says of the video: “Falling out of love feels like walking through a ghost city. You’re surrounded by all these empty structures of what was supposed to be – but there’s no one there. That silence, that isolation, is exactly what I wanted Angel to look like.”
Behind the single and album is a trusted circle of collaborators: Maribelle AKA Vetta Borne (George Alice, Young Franco, Allday), Lucy Blomkamp (6LACK, T-Pain, Khalid) and Antonia Gauci (Ke$ha, Troye Sivan, DMA’S).
Venice has consistently delivered cinematic visuals across this project, each one “a vivid expression of the woman I’ve become, steeped in identity, reflecting the profound, mystical journey of the personal and artistic transformation I’ve been on.”
As 奔月 Moonlanding arrives, Qin launches into a new age with unshakable clarity. She’s not here to play it safe, to tone herself down, or to deliver anything less than her most authentic, most outrageous, most fully realised self.
This isn’t one small step for Venice Qin. This is the giant leap.
