Chanel Beads – Your Day Will Come (Pink Vinyl)

First things first: yes, Chanel Beads’ second album, Your Day Will Come, has the same title as the experimental project’s 2024 breakthrough debut. But this is a completely new body of work, not a “part two,” a rehash or a re-do. If his initial impulse was to poke fun at the apparatus that divides music into chapters, as the songs developed, Shane Lavers found the phrase carried deeper nuance, evoking the duel between certainty and doubt that preoccupied his psyche. Though the phrase unfurls with conviction, a slight shift in emphasis can inspire unsettling ambiguities: Will your day come? What will it be like? How can you be sure? Chanel Beads is a New York-based experimental indie project led by Shane Lavers, primarily characterized by a mix of dream pop, hypnagogic pop, and art pop. Their music blends manipulated samples, synthetic sounds, and, occasionally, live strings to create a distorted, nostalgic, and often ethereal soundscape.