NEW EP: Cait Lin 凱琳 GRADIENTS EP + Focus track 'PEACE & LOVE'

Australian-Taiwanese artist Cait Lin 凱琳 releases GRADIENTS, an EP reflecting her bicultural identity and storytelling
+ focus track ‘PEACE & LOVE’

Delving into the storytelling of her bicultural identity, Australian-Taiwanese artist Cait Lin 凱琳 is releasing her EP GRADIENTS, out Tuesday 14 October. Across six tracks blending R&B, soul, jazz and pop, she brings her multicultural identity and jazz-trained warmth into sharp focus. Exploring themes of resilience, optimism, and emotional renewal, 'PEACE & LOVE' sets the tone for GRADIENTS, an anthem of softness and strength that declares: I’ve been through it, and I’m still shining. The EP marks a bold, creative chapter, created between Taiwan and Australia.

‘Growing up between Taiwan and Australia gave me two sensibilities that show up in my music: Taiwan gave me a softness, a kind of tenderness in how I approach melodies and emotion, and Australia gave me candour — the directness to just say it how it is. GRADIENTS is how those two worlds sound when they meet.’ - Cait Lin 凱琳

Produced by ARIA-nominated Ghanaian-Australian artist Citizen Kay and Taiwanese-American duo Fi-Né, GRADIENTS unfolds like a spectrum of colour. Each track represents a distinct shade of emotion. Guided by a visual world of the EP, each of the six songs is tied to a colour, capturing emotions that don’t always have words, as each track moves through a different shade of feeling. Setting the tone of resilience, track opener and feature ‘PEACE & LOVE’ begins with the coral optimism, weaving groove and grace into a quiet celebration of strength and serenity.. Moving into the twilight orange and intimacy of ‘Stand Still’, the deep red urgency pairs with a reminder to slow down in ‘Make Time’, and the piercing emotional heart of the record ‘fragile love’ pairs with blue-grey. Rising back up with the track that inspired the EP, the bright yellow hope of ‘Colours in the Sky’ reminds us to paint our own sky instead of waiting for a rainbow after the storm, as the EP closes with the late-night dance floor purple haze of ‘PLAY THE GAME’. The record suggests that feelings are never black and white; they move like shifting light. Even when the world feels drained of colour, we can repaint it with our own.

‘The whole EP is about emotional in-betweens. Not black and white, not neat, but all the gradients that make us human. That’s why the title felt so right. It’s also very personal; I feel like my life as a mixed Taiwanese-Australian, living between languages and cultures, is itself a gradient. The music became a reflection of that.’ - Cait Lin 凱琳

Born to an Australian father and Taiwanese mother, and raised in six countries, Cait Lin brings rare cross-cultural fluency to her work. Fluent in both Mandarin and English, her songs reflect the nuance of her dual heritage and global perspective, fusing East and West not only sonically, but emotionally. She first rose to early prominence after winning top honours at both the Taipei and Taichung International Jazz Festival Competitions, and co-winning a 2022 Queensland Music Award for her performance and co-production on the track 就當家裡 Welcome to the Neighbourhood: Taiwan with Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra. Since then, she’s performed at major festivals across Asia and Australia, hosted national stages, and built a reputation for intimate, magnetic performances that transcend language barriers.

Cait is also co-creative director and lead vocalist of ZY THE WAY 中庸, a jazz-poetry collective reimagining ancient Chinese verse through contemporary harmony that has toured widely across Asia and Australia, earning praise from tastemakers, including Gilles Peterson. Outside the studio, Cait is a respected broadcaster with over a decade of radio experience. She hosts Razzamajazz and Sweet Talk on ICRT FM100.7, Taiwan’s leading English-language station. In 2023, she made history as the first female host of the Taichung Jazz Festival and continues to serve as a sought-after emcee for major music events across the country.

Whether singing in English or Mandarin, jazz or R&B, Cait Lin 凱琳 is ready to take you through all shades of her emotional depth with songs that don’t shout, but stay with you.

Stay tuned for GRADIENTS 2026 tour dates!

GRADIENTS is out Tuesday 14 October via Sunny Music Distribution + Bandcamp