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- L'Rain
- ReleaseProduct
- L'Rain
- Label
- Astro Nautico
- Catalogue Number
- ASTR040
- Release Date
- 15 September 2017
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Time is twisted on L’Rain, the 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 its production: the loss of her mother. Cheek’s mother became suddenly ill during the album’s writing and production, but grief appears in the recordings in a complicated way. The lyrics never explicitly mention her mother, as the songs were written with unrelated sorrow in mind.
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Heavy (But Not In Wait)
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Stay, Go (Go, Stay)
4:43
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Bat
2:22
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Consciousness
2:29
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Benediction
0:37
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A Toes (Shelf Inside Your Head)
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Go, Stay (Stay, Go)
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July 14, 2015
0:23
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Which Fork
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- 13 October 2023
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- Mexican Summer
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- 184923130942
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- 3 January 2022
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- ASTR076
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- ASTR054
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- 30 August 2019
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- ASTR052
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- 21 June 2019
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- ANR009
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- 29 March 2019
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- ASTR046
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- 27 October 2017
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- 29 March 2024
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- PIASR1212DA
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- 27 November 2020
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