Chanel Beads announces new album Your Day Will Come with new single ‘Song for the Messenger’
PRAISE FOR Chanel Beads
“Last year’s debut album, Your Day Will Come, laid the blueprint for Lavers’ sound: layered guitars, programmed drums, and warped samples that pull memory and emotion into the same strange orbit.”
“Lavers’ songs often end on the off-beat, or directly before the chorus should hit, as if your car radio abruptly lost signal. They feel ephemeral, like you’ll hum them for years but might never find them again.”
“Their music, a dense mist of reverb-washed violin, guitar and cymbals, hits like a wave, sharp and totalizing.”
“A stunning showcase of warped strings and acoustic anomalies that shimmer with its own unique, ghostly glow.”
“Chanel Beads' immersive performances are in a lane of their own, offering re-worked tracks that take on a whole new life and sound onstage”
LP TRACKLIST
1. Drums Only
2. Song for the Messenger
3. The Coward Forgets His Nightmare
4. Profane Break
5. JBL in the Fireplace
6. Tyler Richard
7. Outside Your Life
8. Dust in the Wind
9. Silver Cup
10. Opening in the Gate
11. Spirit Showing
12. Drunk Stupid in the Structure
13. Boss
14. Beaten With Sticks
‘Song for the Messenger‘ is out now, buy/stream here.
Today, Chanel Beads, the project of Shane Lavers, announces his sophomore record, titled Your Day Will Come, due out on June 26 via Jagjaguwar. With the announce he also releases his single ‘Song for the Messenger’. LISTEN TO ‘SONG FOR THE MESSENGER‘ + WATCH HERE + PRE-SAVE LP HERE.
And yes, Chanel Beads’ second album shares the name of his 2024 breakthrough debut. But this is a completely new body of work, not a part two or a re-do. As the songs developed, Lavers found the phrase carried deeper nuance, evoking a tension between certainty and doubt that preoccupied his psyche. Will your day come? What will it be like? How can you be sure?
Today, Chanel Beads also releases the single ‘Song for the Messenger’. While writing the album Lavers’ thoughts had more room to bounce around and curdle inside his head, and he often felt dulled down by a world that can feel absurdly cruel.
Chanel Beads says, “This song is laughing at me. Like looking over your shoulder and walking off a cliff. The video is about no fear.”
WATCH: ‘Song for the Messenger’ (Official Music Video)
Your Day Will Come signals a shift in Chanel Beads’ sound, with more original parts and players. It was made at his small and sparsely furnished Brooklyn studio, with the speakers positioned so close to his face that he could feel air emit from every thump of the kick drum. He embraces the attitude of “if it works, leave it be,” recording into whatever microphone is around and building the song from that take. Violinist Zachary Paul has a greater presence and the gossamer voice of Maya McGrory can once again be heard across the album. Casual hangs led to contributions from friends like Tchad Cousins (Urika’s Bedroom), Mari Maurice (More Eaze), Anastasia Coope, Bella Litsa and Isaac Eiger (Threshold).
Lavers’ fragmented lyrics are full of open-ended questions. He was particularly consumed by the coexistence of nihilism and love, saying, “It feels as if one should obliterate the other, but they don’t.”Emotional sublimation is central to Chanel Beads, as if you can white-knuckle something so hard that it becomes transcendent. Your Day Will Come uses dream logic to delve into liminality and precarious remembrance. It’s coloured by the spectres of specific losses, but also how you can haunt yourself by falling back into old habits.
Shane Lavers was living in New York by 2022, as tracks like ‘Ef‘ and ‘True Altruism‘ captivated certain online circles with their androgynous vocals, uncanny artifice, and stirring intimacy. In the years since Chanel Beads’ entrancing introduction, the project has gone from playing house shows and illegal abandoned train tunnel shows, all the way up to supporting Lorde on her recent North American arena tour.
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