Current Joys // East My Love LP [COLOR] / TAPE

アメリカ・ネバダのインディーフォーク作家Current Joysが、2024年10月に同国インディアナのインディーレーベルSecretly Canadianからリリースしたアルバムです。

ベッドルーム・インディーポップ〜オルタナ・カントリー12曲を収録。

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Available on 12" olive green vinyl or cassette.

Tracklist:

1. Echoes of the Past
2. California Rain 03:23
3. Days of Heaven
4. Never Seen a Rose
5. Lullaby for the Lost 06:00
6. Oh, Sister
7. They Shoot Horses 05:48
8. Slowly like the Wind
9. Tormenta
10. Sister Christian
11. East My Love
12. Feelin' Groovy

Text excerpt by Secretly Canadian:

"East My Love, the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by Current Joys, feels familiar. It’s meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive deep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love and trauma, heartbreak and spiritual renewal. Cast with a warm glow and finding Current Joys’ Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most high-fidelity production to date, it’s the kind of album that listeners could see themselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they’re most in need of reassurance or escapism. For Rattigan, though, it’s all that and more. “East My Love is an album I wrote at a low point, where I was struggling with a lot of mental health stuff,” he says. “Writing it was like my comfort blanket. In all of the madness that was happening in my mind, I was trying to soothe my soul with country music and transcendental folk – messages to myself from a different place.”

Rattigan wrote East My Love alone in the woods in Tennessee, with no cell reception and nobody in earshot for miles. Composed three years before Love + Pop, the experimental pop double record he released in 2023 and 2024, the songs on East My Love felt too raw to confront until he felt well and truly out from underneath the cloud that had been cast over him. Rattigan describes the songs as “landmines” that, for years, threatened to upend his carefully balanced mental state. “They were just triggers that would put me back in this emotional space, and I think eventually I got to a place where they were more comforting,” he recalls. “That’s what I hope people find out of the record – a solace from any anxieties or depressions.”

Along with that comfort comes pain, and an acknowledgement that any repair requires some level of breakage. Lead single “California Rain” acts like a tableau depicting Rattigan’s attempt to escape his demons, its placid lyrics a distinct counterpoint to the tidal-wave production: “Isn’t it nice to get away?/Clearing my head up, and dull away the pain.” It speaks to the album’s constant coin-toss between peace and chaos: “It’s like you’re trying to outrun your demons, but at a certain point, they become your friend, and you have to walk alongside them,” says Rattigan. “I feel like you don’t know that when you’re suppressing them – when you’re hiding them in the rain.”..."

Artist : Current Joys

Label : Secretly Canadian

CAT no : SC486