{"title":"Chanel Beads","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"your-day-will-come","title":"Your Day Will Come","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlbums of the Year 2024 - Number 85\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human experience, \u003ci\u003eYour Day Will Come\u003c\/i\u003e is the debut album from Chanel Beads, via Jagjaguwar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eYour Day Will Come\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout, 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 higher pitched 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese days, Chanel Beads live shows see all three performers weaving together in absolute catharsis. This catharsis is pushed to its 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimilar 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title of \u003ci\u003eYour Day Will Come\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Red LP | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50406819561803,"sku":"2180260","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50406819004747,"sku":"2180256","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50406818644299,"sku":"2180255","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/SImuepzA_dcb171e5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726591598"},{"product_id":"your-day-will-come-1","title":"Your Day Will Come (2nd Album)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst things first: yes, Chanel Beads’ second album, \u003cem\u003eYour Day Will Come\u003c\/em\u003e, has the same title as the experimental project’s 2024 breakthrough debut. But this is a completely new body of work, not a “part two,” a rehash or a re-do. Raised in the suburbs of Minnesota, Lavers began making music under the name Chanel Beads while living in Seattle back in 2016. When he wasn’t working at a library for the blind, he was collaging synthetic sounds and real instruments into beguiling songs fundamentally averse to genre. He 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second iteration of \u003cem\u003eYour Day Will Come\u003c\/em\u003e catalogues a sonic shift and evolution in Chanel Beads’ sound. This time around, it’s layered with more original parts and players. Violinist Zachary Paul has a greater presence, though Lavers continues to toy with the semiotic baggage of plug-ins. The gossamer voice of Maya McGrory can once again be heard across the album, and she co-wrote the majestic “Silver Cup.” These 14 songs are increasingly fleshed out and structured, a result of a more collaborative approach that embraced spontaneity and imperfections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"LP - Opaque Pink","offer_id":57155045294411,"sku":"R7582-1316","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57155045327179,"sku":"R7582-6298","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":57155045359947,"sku":"R7582-8469","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/chanelbeads.ydwc.cover.JAG487.jpg?v=1777461578"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/chanel-beads.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}