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L'Rain has announced her new album, “I Killed Your Dog,” which will be released on October 13 through Mexican Summer. The album features her previously released single “New Year's UnResolution” and a new single, “Pet Rock,” along with a music video filled with miniatures.
Taja Cheek, who goes by the moniker L'Rain, has been crafting her thoughtfully wandering compositions for years while simultaneously working as a curator in institutional art spaces. However, she found the label “heady” to be a bit horrific as it did not describe her music. She said, “It's in a weird time signature, but that's just how my brain works. I'm not like, ‘Let me make this as complicated as I can so I can seem smarter.'”
Cheek wanted to create a “basic bitch” record about the complexities of love that wasn't so nice. She said, “Sometimes when people talk about experimental music, it's like it's untouchable. I wanted to do something that was the exact opposite of that.”
Her upcoming third album, “I Killed Your Dog,” due out on October 13, is a bolder, brattier, and more diabolical side of L'Rain, where she magnifies the complexities of severance and grief with partners, family, or friends. Collaborating with Andrew Lappin and Ben Chapoteau-Katz, her latest work exists in a world without timestamps, merging the clarity of her recent years with the courage of her teenage self.
The album is grounded in a relatable yet infinitely abstract topic – love – and boasts more immediate rock and folk influences. Cheek shows off a playful streak on tracks like “Pet Rock,” which sounds like a skewed Strokes song and ends with a horror story about a bespectacled dead woman on a train.
The record is still far from basic, with Cheek luxuriating in swirling soundscapes while grappling with ideas on femininity, boundaries, and expectations. “r(EMOTE)” is a rumination on past lovers consuming mental space, and “Uncertainty Principle” considers a familiar dating conundrum: “Do I like you enough to try?”
The lead single and album closer “New Year's UnResolution,” a quiet explosion of synths and drums, features some of her earliest musings about how relationships collapse. “I've forgotten what it's like to be in love,” she sings on the song. It's a clear-eyed reflection of the moments both immediately following a breakup and years after memories erode.
While Cheek has left much of her career up to gravity, drifting wherever the music takes her, she has found herself becoming more decisive lately. “So much of what has happened to me has come organically, without me really thinking about what I want to do,” she says. “I feel like that's starting to shift.” Taja Cheek, known professionally as L'Rain, is an American experimentalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and curator, primarily known as the lead vocalist and songwriter of her eponymous band.
TRACKLIST
01 Sincerity Commercial
02 Our Funeral
03 Pet Rock
04 I Hate My Best Friends
05 I Killed Your Dog
06 All the Days You Remember
07 5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG)
08 Sometimes
09 r(Emote)
10 Uncertainty Principle
11 Oh Wow, a Bird!
12 Knead Bee
13 Monsoon of Regret
14 Clumsy
15 What's That Song?
16 New Year's UnResolution