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Your Day Will Come - Red(Colored Vinyl, Red)
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At once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human
experience, Your Day Will Come is the debut album from
Chanel Beads, arriving April 19 via Jagjaguwar. The remarkable
project announces the arrival of New York-based musician
Shane Lavers as a new force in experimental music, capturing
the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange
infiniteness of the digital world. The songs feel like a memory in
which you can't distinguish between what actually happened or
what was a false reproduction in your mind-although the
burning emotion remains intact.
Lavers pushed himself to strip his own sense of ego from
Your Day Will Come. Throughout, Lavers weaves in
contributions from his live bandmates, singer-songwriter Maya
McGrory (Colle) and experimental instrumentalist Zachary
Paul, who offer their own layers of feeling. As McGrory offers a
more full-bodied tone and Lavers often sings with his higherpitched head voice, the two collaborators meet in the middle;
it's an intermingling of identities or a subconscious pining for
androgyny. In this slippery space, different perspectives merge
together, and there's a sense of empathy and humility that
arises from the blending of these voices. These days, Chanel
Beads live shows see all three performers weaving together in
absolute catharsis.
This catharsis is pushed to it's peak on "Idea June," which sees
McGrory taking over lead vocals to project Lavers' lyrics. As
McGrory sings, "The waves wash onto my shore," in a voice
that's both earnest and digitally processed, it's as though she's
speaking as a separate embodiment of Lavers. In under two
minutes, the track of clunky acoustic guitar and gutting strings
lands somewhere between detachment and kinship. Similar to
the off-kilter structure of "Police Scanner," these songs are
strangely affecting in their unfinished and liminal forms. Lavers,
who is drawn to poor MP3 rips and transitional moments in DJ
mixes, knows that these inexact musical artifacts evoke human
imperfection.
The title of Your Day Will Come could be read as a promise
of the arrival of good karma, or it could be a reminder of one's
mortality, said out of spite. Yet as Lavers unpacks the haunting
feelings of the past that he must release in order to move into
his future, he reminds us that grief and hope might be closer
than they seem to the naked eye.
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