Singer-songwriter and recording artist Liamkins opens another bold chapter in his extensive musical journey with the release of his new album, Victorious Defeat.

Released on 3 July 2026 through Blue Pie Records USA, the ten-track album delivers approximately 35 minutes of original music and brings together Liamkins’ distinctive approach to melody, storytelling and genre-crossing songwriting. The album is now available across major digital platforms, including Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music and Amazon Music.

The title Victorious Defeat immediately captures the contradictions that have always made Liamkins’ work compelling: strength and vulnerability, optimism and uncertainty, movement and reflection.

Rather than presenting victory and defeat as opposites, the album places them side by side, creating a body of work shaped by experience, observation and the belief that personal setbacks can become part of a greater creative journey.

A New Chapter for a Prolific Independent Artist
Liamkins is the English-language musical project of Yury “George” Lyamkin, a Kazakh-Belarusian-Moscow singer-songwriter, recording artist and studio and concert musician.

His catalogue moves across pop, classical rhythm and blues, soul, folk and rock, reflecting an artist who has never allowed one genre to define his creative identity. His Bandcamp profile describes two principal songwriting projects: Yury Lyamkin for Russian-language pop, urban romance and cabaret, and Liamkins for his broader English-language pop and rock work.

That freedom remains central to Victorious Defeat.

The album does not feel constructed around one formula or one commercial trend. Instead, it continues Liamkins’ long-standing commitment to the song itself: melody, words, atmosphere and emotional movement.

Ten Songs, One Expanding Creative World
Victorious Defeat contains ten original tracks:

• “Hands Off My Cow”
• “In A New Real World”
• “Gear Trader”
• “Song Of Peace”
• “Mind’s Immigration”
• “The Gift Deed”
• “Wealth”
• “Another Word”
• “The Song Recalls”
• “Victorious Defeat”

The complete album runs for approximately 35 minutes, with individual songs ranging from compact, direct statements to longer and more developed compositions.

The track titles reveal the wide conceptual territory Liamkins continues to explore.

“Song Of Peace” brings a direct message of unity into the album, while titles such as “Mind’s Immigration,” “In A New Real World” and “The Song Recalls” suggest movement through memory, identity and changing realities. “Wealth,” “The Gift Deed” and “Gear Trader” bring material and transactional language into the record, creating another contrast between inner experience and the external world.

At the centre of the collection, the title track “Victorious Defeat” brings the album’s central contradiction into focus: the idea that losing something does not always mean failure, and that endurance itself can become a form of victory.

An Artist With a Long and Evolving Catalogue
Liamkins’ creative history reaches back well beyond this latest release.

Published artist biographies trace George Lyamkin’s earlier work to the Moscow group The Plane, formed in 2002. The song “One Diamond” was later included on a CD connected with the Russian edition of NME. He subsequently developed the project Updiverss before establishing Liamkins as his continuing artist identity around 2010.

Since then, Liamkins has built a substantial catalogue of studio albums, live recordings, compilations and standalone singles.

Previous albums include:

• Reason Softly Speaks or Just Makes It Louder
• Time Rules
• Ahead Backward
• Five Higher
• Offshore
• Black Owl
• Interlocker
• No Ford In Love
• Orange Grunge

His catalogue reflects a songwriter who continues producing, experimenting and documenting the world around him rather than waiting for industry trends to determine when or how he should create.

Building Momentum Through a Strong 2026 Release Campaign
The arrival of Victorious Defeat follows an active period of new music from Liamkins.

Throughout 2026, the artist released a growing sequence of singles, including:

• “Two Cups”
• “Way Out”
• “Happiness Department”
• “River Time”
• “Another Verse In Universe”
• “One Diamond”
• “There’s A Mountain On The Hill”
• “Prelunar”
• “Intension”
• “Rainman”
• “Bear Waltz”
• “Ensemble”
• “Beehives”
• “In Yellow”
• “Picture”

This steady flow of music has helped maintain Liamkins’ digital visibility while giving listeners multiple entry points into his evolving catalogue. His current Spotify profile presents Victorious Defeat as the major 2026 album release alongside the growing group of recent singles.

The strategy also demonstrates the value of consistent catalogue activity.

Every single creates a new discovery opportunity. Every album builds a larger artistic story. Every platform gives listeners another way to enter the Liamkins musical world.

From Melodic Pop to Rock, Soul and Rhythm and Blues
One of Liamkins’ defining strengths is his willingness to move between musical forms.

His work has been described through pop, rock, soul, folk and classical rhythm-and-blues influences. Rather than treating those styles as separate categories, Liamkins draws from them as part of one broad songwriting vocabulary.

This approach allows him to move from intimate and reflective writing into more energetic arrangements without losing the identity of the song.
The result is music that feels independent in the truest sense: guided by the artist’s ideas rather than by a fixed marketing category.

Music Created for Listening, Reflection and Discovery
Victorious Defeat arrives at a time when independent artists are competing for attention across an increasingly crowded digital market.

Liamkins continues taking a different route.

Instead of reducing the music to short-lived trends, he keeps building a catalogue that rewards exploration. Listeners can begin with the new album, move into the recent singles and then continue through more than a decade of albums, live recordings and alternative collections.

This depth gives the new release additional value.

Victorious Defeat is not an isolated project. It is part of an expanding musical archive created by an artist who continues writing, recording and releasing music with remarkable consistency.

Blue Pie Records Supports the Global Release
The album is released through Blue Pie Records USA, continuing the relationship between Liamkins and the international independent label.

Blue Pie Records has supported Liamkins’ music across digital distribution and catalogue development, helping connect his work with global streaming audiences. The original 2016 album Reason Softly Speaks or Just Makes It Louder is also listed under Blue Pie Records, while Victorious Defeat carries the 2026 Blue Pie Records USA release credit.

Liamkins | Victorious Defeat Highlights

• New ten-track Liamkins studio album
• Released on 3 July 2026
• Approximately 35 minutes of original music
• Released through Blue Pie Records USA
• Available across Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music and Amazon Music
• Blends Liamkins’ pop, rock, soul, folk and rhythm-and-blues foundations
• Continues an active sequence of 2026 singles and releases
• Expands one of the artist’s most productive catalogue periods
• Introduces new listeners to the wider Liamkins musical world

A Defeat That Still Moves Forward
The title Victorious Defeat carries the emotional complexity that defines much of Liamkins’ songwriting.

Life does not always provide clean victories.

Progress can arrive through setbacks. Strength can appear during uncertainty. A difficult ending can become the beginning of another song, another album or another stage of the journey.

Through these ten tracks, Liamkins continues doing what he has done throughout his career: turning experience into melody and contradiction into art.

The new album is here.

The catalogue continues growing.

And for Liamkins, even defeat can carry the sound of victory.

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