CHANEL BEADS
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Chanel Beads — the project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers — announces his debut album, Your Day Will Come (out 4/19 on Jagjaguwar), and shares the lead single/video, “Idea June.” Your Day Will Come marks Lavers’ arrival as a new force in experimental music. Throughout the album, Lavers captures the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world. Though he incorporates the scrappy sonics of post-punk, the gripping sentimentality of pop tunes, and the spectral artifice of electronic music, he blurs lines through unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artifacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitory and timeless. Following previous single “Police Scanner,” “Idea June” features live bandmate Maya McGrory taking lead vocals to project Lavers’ lyrics. As McGrory sings 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. The track becomes strangely affecting in its unfinished and liminal form, and Lavers, who is drawn to poor MP3 rips and transitional moments in DJ mixes, knows that these inexact musical artifacts evoke human imperfection.
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LILLY FLOWER
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Lilly Flower introduces her first full length project – recorded intimately in her childhood bedroom in North Carolina. Her angsty / angelic vocals meander amongst an array of glistening synths, fuzzy shoegaze guitars with hints of alt and classic rock. Her fascination with gore-ish aesthetics is equally balanced by an element of soft and cuddly. This duality best describes her vibe. She effortlessly combines the anguish of Courtney Love’s vocals in Hole with the boppy-ness of early Grimes – both big influences. Lilly Flower’s project Critter poetically documents heavy themes of loss. Her Album Critter was released January 24th, 2025
