Album of the Week – 26/06/26

This week sees new releases from the likes of Dan Deacon (Little Brother – Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) and Beth Orton (The Ground Above). There’s also the much-anticipated RAT BOY with CRASH! Morrissey is back with an EP called Deluxe Notre-Dame EP.

When I was about 17, I had a B-side collection of Pixies songs on tape that I called ‘The Mother Lode’, which I thought was a great name. The Pixies themselves came up with ‘Complete B-Sides: 1988-97’, which sounds slightly less inspired. It’s more factually accurate, I guess. They release a remastered version of the compilation today.

For our album of the week, we’ve gone for Chanel Beads, which is the stage name of American musician Shane Lavers. Your Day Will Come is his debut release, and it’s worth checking out below.

Album of the Week – Chanel Beads – Your Day Will Come

At once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human experience, Your Day Will Come is the debut album from Chanel Beads, arriving April 19 via Jagjaguwar. The remarkable project announces the arrival of New York-based musician Shane Lavers as a new force in experimental music. After his 2022 singles “Ef” and “True Altruism” marked his breakout on corners of the internet, Your Day Will Come sees Lavers evolving his uncanny and dreamlike sound which he achieves through layering synthetic and real instruments. His songs feel like a memory in which you can’t distinguish between what actually happened or what was a false reproduction in your mind—although the burning emotion remains intact.

Your Day Will Come sees Lavers capturing the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world, as he searches for truth and faith amid competing realities. Though he incorporates the scrappy sonics of post-punk, the gripping sentimentality of pop tunes, and the spectral artifice of electronic music, he blurs lines through unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artifacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitory and timeless.

Albums of Note: 

— Dan Deacon – Little Brother (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)

— Beth Orton – The Ground Above

— RAT BOY – CRASH!

— Morrissey – Deluxe Notre-Dame EP

— Pixies – Complete B-Sides: 1988-97

— Downtown Boys – Public Luxury

June 26th:

— Aaron MF Olson – Songs Album II

— Alewya – ZERO

— American Aquarium – New Ways to Lose

— Andrew Sa – American Rough

— Atta Boy – Silt

— BABYMETAL – METAL FORTH (DELUXE EDITION)

— BCMC (Cooper Crain & Bill MacKay) – Stash

— Beth Orton – The Ground Above

— The Bouncing Souls – Born to Be

— Brutalismus 3000 – Harmony

— Butthole Surfers – After the Astronaut

— Chanel Beads – Your Day Will Come

— Cody Johnson – Banks Of The Trinity

— Dan Deacon – Little Brother (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)

— Dari Bay – Surprise Wish

— Debbii Dawson – Where Have All The Good Men Gone? EP

— Del The Funky Homosapien – Future Development (Reissue)

— Devon Gilfillian – Time Will Tell

— Devonté Hynes – The Invite (Original Soundtrack)

— DJ Plead – Please

— Downtown Boys – Public Luxury

— Duran Duran – Free To Love: Hot Star Remixes

— Emperor X – Unified Field

— Exploring Birdsong – Live From The Cottage

— Fai Laci – Elephant In The Room

— Fiddlehead – Baby I’ll Change EP

— GILT – I Saw Myself In The Black Screen

— Grateful Dead – Steal Your Face (50th Anniversary Remaster)

— Harmony Tividad – Lifetime

— Heidi Montag – Masterpiece

— Ibeyi – Offering

— ill peach – EAVESDROPPING

— Jacob Ungerleider – Congratulations

— JJerome87 (alt-J’s Joe Nerman) – The Canyon

— Jon Lampley – Notes To Self

— Keenan O’Meara – Bathe in the Everlasting Light

— knitting – Souvenir

— Las Robertas – All We Need Is Now

— Lau Ro – Lau

— Madeon – Victory

— Maren Morris – HERO: A Second Wind

— Maya the Don – Precious Cargo

— Mayhem – Live in Marseille 2000 (25th Anniversary Edition)

— Metallica – ReLoad Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set

— Meekz – Mr Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

— Mico – When the lights turn on

— Morrissey – Deluxe Notre-Dame EP

— Mortis – Violent Silence

— Mr. Fantasy – Fantasyland

— Muse – The WOW! Signal

— nascar aloe – AUDIO SHARPNEL

— Nduduzo Makhathini – The Myth We Choose

— Pixies – Complete B-Sides: 1988-97

— The Pretty Reckless – Dear God

— PROF – GOOD TIME BOY

— proun – Maybe Luck

— RAT BOY – CRASH!

— Roberta Fleck – Roberta Flack: The Montreux Years

— Ryan Beatty – Sweet Fortune

— Sekou – In A World We Don’t Belong Pt. 2

— SML – Spontaneous Music Live

— Snarls – In Heaven There’s Rainbows EP

— Some Velvet Sidewalk – Critters Encore

— Spacemoth – Inward Eye

— Switchfoot – Forever Now

— Tasha – You Are Spring!

— TEED – DJ-Kicks

— There Were Wires – Vessel

— Tift Merritt – Sugar

— Tina Turner – Wildest Dreams (30th Anniversary Edition)

— Truck Violence – The weathervane is my body

— Walter Egan – The Album Collection 1977-1980

— Willow Avalon – Pink Pocket Pistol

— Wyclef Jean – Quantum Leap

— YOASOBI – THE BOOK for