Review: Shane Lavers' "Your Day Will Come" Blends Fake Jazz with Raw Emotion
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Kieran Press-Reynolds
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A review of Shane Lavers' 2024 album "Your Day Will Come," which blends organic and digital sounds inspired by Donald Fagen's concept of "fake jazz." The album mixes sophisto-pop influences with distorted guitars, samples, and raw emotional vocals, creating a tension between polished and scuzzy aesthetics.
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· 3 pulledYour day will come. Your day will come. Your day will come. Say it enough times and it tilts from an optimistic mantra to a looping curse.
Inspired by Donald Fagen's concept of 'fake jazz,' Lavers defaced his sophisto-pop influences.
Keep the regal strings, the pingy bass, and the gossamer synth shivers, but pollute it with askew guitars and samples, and the cries of a man pickin
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