Chanel Beads' "Your Day Will Come": A Nervy Blend of Fake Jazz and Digital Grit
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Kieran Press-Reynolds
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A review of Shane Lavers' 2024 album "Your Day Will Come" under the moniker Chanel Beads. The review describes how Lavers blends organic and digital sounds, drawing on Donald Fagen's concept of "fake jazz" to create a tension between polished sophisto-pop influences and deliberately scuzzy, distorted elements. The album grapples with themes of guilt, grief, and mental phantoms through a nervy, hybrid sonic palette.
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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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