L'Rain: L'Rain

L'Rain SKU: 36212415
L'Rain: L'Rain

L'Rain: L'Rain

L'Rain SKU: 36212415

Format: VINYL LP

Regular price $19.98 Sale price $17.18
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Description

Artist: L'Rain
Title: L'Rain
Product Type: VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 debut release by L'Rain (Taja Cheek), a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, tape manipulator and vocalist from Brooklyn. Rising on a wave of synths and breathy sax, the album unfolds with electric guitar arpeggios and undulating vocal swells, unwrapping a dense psychedelic arrangement grounded by clattering acoustic drum patterns and the ephemeral soars of Cheek's voice. Reversed audio swells in track endings and beginnings obscure vocal content, exploring the same track from multiple angles and with different meanings. Reprised piano tape loops reflect Cheek's formal music education, during which she would fixate on a phrase of piano sheet music and play it repeatedly, imagining new songs. The baroque pop aspects of L'Rain are marked by a childlike levity, deepening and mystifying the painful reality Cheek faced as an adult during it's production: the loss of her mother. L'Rain comes off at times as morbid, pessimistic, and flippant while at other times smiley, bubbly, and effervescent. Like pressing play, fast forward, and rewind all at once, Cheek wanted to present a range of emotions through her minimalist experiments. The result is particular and real, yet impossible and panchromatic: a loop within a loop. Take 'Benediction,' a field recording that voyeuristically follows religious practitioners just outside their place of worship. L'Rain locates a spiritual dimension just beyond her listeners' experience, in the recursive logic of her own hearing.

Tracks:
1.1 Heavy (But Not in Wait)
1.2 Stay, Go (Go, Stay)
1.3 Bat
1.4 Alive and a Wake
1.5 Benediction
1.6 A Toes (Shelf Inside Your Head)
1.7 Go, Stay (Stay, Go)
1.8 July 14th, 2015
1.9 Which Fork / I'll Be
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