Chanel Beads
The project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers, his 2024 debut album announced Chanel Beads as a new force in experimental music. At once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human experience, Your Day Will Come 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, Lavers blurs lines through unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes, as on acclaimed singles ‘Police Scanner’ and ‘Embarrassed Dog’. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artefacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitory and timeless. Praised locally across fbi radio (Packet Feature Album), triple j, 3RRR, PBS FM and more globally through Pitchfork, PAPER, Perfectly Imperfect, NTS and The Lot Radio among others, his debut was cherished as “complex, melancholic music that intentionally resists being placed in time” (Crack Magazine).