Chanel Beads, the project of Shane Lavers, announces his sophomore record, titled Your Day Will Come, due out on June 26 via Jagjaguwar. And yes, Chanel Beads’ second album shares the name of his 2024 breakthrough debut. But this is a completely new body of work, not a part two or a re-do. As the songs developed, Lavers found the phrase carried deeper nuance, evoking a tension between certainty and doubt that preoccupied his psyche. Will your day come? What will it be like? How can you be sure?
Chanel Beads have also released the single ‘Song for the Messenger.’ While writing the album Lavers’ thoughts had more room to bounce around and curdle inside his head, and he often felt dulled down by a world that can feel absurdly cruel.
Chanel Beads says, “This song is laughing at me. Like looking over your shoulder and walking off a cliff. The video is about no fear.”
Listen to ‘Song for the Messenger’ here.
Watch the video for ‘Song for the Messenger’ here.
Your Day Will Come signals a shift in Chanel Beads’ sound, with more original parts and players. It was made at his small and sparsely furnished Brooklyn studio, with the speakers positioned so close to his face that he could feel air emit from every thump of the kick drum. He embraces the attitude of “if it works, leave it be,” recording into whatever microphone is around and building the song from that take. Violinist Zachary Paul has a greater presence and the gossamer voice of Maya McGrory can once again be heard across the album. Casual hangs led to contributions from friends like Tchad Cousins (Urika’s Bedroom), Mari Maurice (More Eaze), Anastasia Coope, Bella Litsa and Isaac Eiger (Threshold).
Lavers’ fragmented lyrics are full of open-ended questions. He was particularly consumed by the coexistence of nihilism and love, saying, “It feels as if one should obliterate the other, but they don’t.” Emotional sublimation is central to Chanel Beads, as if you can white-knuckle something so hard that it becomes transcendent. Your Day Will Come uses dream logic to delve into liminality and precarious remembrance. It’s colored by the spectres of specific losses, but also how you can haunt yourself by falling back into old habits.
Shane Lavers 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.
Chanel Beads
Your Day Will Come
Out June 26 via Jagjaguwar
Tracklisting
- Drums Only
- Song for the Messenger
- The Coward Forgets His Nightmare
- Profane Break
- JBL in the Fireplace
- Tyler Richard
- Outside Your Life
- Dust in the Wind
- Silver Cup
- Opening in the Gate
- Spirit Showing
- Drunk Stupid in the Structure
- Boss
- Beaten With Sticks
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