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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, capturing

the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange

infiniteness of the digital world. The 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.

Lavers pushed himself to strip his own sense of ego from

Your Day Will Come. Throughout, Lavers weaves in

contributions from his live bandmates, singer-songwriter Maya

McGrory (Colle) and experimental instrumentalist Zachary

Paul, who offer their own layers of feeling. As McGrory offers a

more full-bodied tone and Lavers often sings with his higherpitched head voice, the two collaborators meet in the middle;

it's an intermingling of identities or a subconscious pining for

androgyny. In this slippery space, different perspectives merge

together, and there's a sense of empathy and humility that

arises from the blending of these voices. These days, Chanel

Beads live shows see all three performers weaving together in

absolute catharsis.

This catharsis is pushed to it's peak on "Idea June," which sees

McGrory taking over lead vocals to project Lavers' lyrics. As

McGrory sings, "The waves wash onto my shore," in a voice

that's both earnest and digitally processed, it's as though she's

speaking as a separate embodiment of Lavers. In under two

minutes, the track of clunky acoustic guitar and gutting strings

lands somewhere between detachment and kinship. Similar to

the off-kilter structure of "Police Scanner," these songs are

strangely affecting in their unfinished and liminal forms. Lavers,

who is drawn to poor MP3 rips and transitional moments in DJ

mixes, knows that these inexact musical artifacts evoke human

imperfection.

The title of Your Day Will Come could be read as a promise

of the arrival of good karma, or it could be a reminder of one's

mortality, said out of spite. Yet as Lavers unpacks the haunting

feelings of the past that he must release in order to move into

his future, he reminds us that grief and hope might be closer

than they seem to the naked eye.