Chanel Beads' "Your Day Will Come": A nervy blend of fake jazz, guilt, and grief

Your 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

On 2024's Your Day Will Come, Shane Lavers sought relief from guilt, the death of a loved one, and other phantoms of the mind with a nervy tangle of organic and digital sounds that felt at once scuzzy and super-clean.