Last week Chanel Beads – the experimental project of New York musician Shane Lavers – kicked off their first-ever North American headlining tour, which has Lavers joined by collaborator, songwriter, and producer Maya McGroery and instrumentalist Zachary Paul. The dates follow the April release of Chanel Beads’ debut album, Your Day Will Come, which dropped courtesy of Jagjaguwar (home of our buddies Bonny Light Horseman) and has received praise from the likes of Pitchfork, SPIN, and FLOOD, who wrote, “Shane Lavers captures the awe and unease of humanity’s impermanence on his debut album of dissociative dream pop.”
Your Day Will Come follows 2022 singles “Ef” and “True Altruism,” and is comprised of nine tracks that Lavers began writing in his Brooklyn apartment in November of 2022. The album features contributions from McGroery and Paul, who Lavers has been playing with around New York since relocating from Seattle. “There was a filter to this record… If it didn’t move me while performing, then I couldn’t make it into a song. As much as I wanted to make something that was cool to the touch, I had to make something that made me feel something,” Lavers has said of the collection.
The music of Your Day Will Come – whose title can be taken in a manner either optimistic or ominous — explores the human experience with layers of both synthetic and real instruments, and has drawn references to ambient electronic, post-punk, and even mainstream pop, the seemingly perfect amalgam for a part-barroom/part-ballroom like Johnny Brenda’s, which Chanel Beads will be headlining this coming Thursday, September 19th. Check out the recent videos for “Idea June” and “Unifying Thought,” off of Your Day Will Come, and get your tickets below.
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