chanel beads - your time will come (2024) and your time will come (2026) and everything thereafter

yeah, this modern day peter gabriel released consecutive albums with the same name. probably favorite new hipster internet-y band out there, great mix of vibes and songs. wispy but never insubstantial. he feels like an american dean blunt, or a james ferraro who sings his own songs, maybe? i've seen people online call his music "cloud rock," which is dumb.

either way, both your day will come albums are excellent, the new one is taking over my life at the moment. maybe no single that stands out like "police scanner" or "embarrassed dog," but it tugs on the heartstrings a bit more.

"the coward forgets his nightmare"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8ejuvP0Z9o

"tyler richard"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3A4DruzO_c

"outside your life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3A4DruzO_c

and from the 2024 album

"police scanner"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFtf8YKwxA

"embarrassed dog"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIff2wH24H4

I mentioned them briefly on the Rolling Indie pop thread and yeah a number of folks calling them cloud rock. I kinda liked them on first listen.

maybe a post for another thread but...

we have these guys, gabriel, maxwell, and who else has multiple albums with the same title?
(not counting 'greatest hits' or similar tropes)

...but also yeah, these guys are rad. new album has a lot of storytelling 'ninth wave'-esque soundsuites and i'm a big fan. rym says they are "HYPNAGOGIC POP" but i think good old dream pop is a good enough descriptor. really like "outside your life" off the new one. the redux of "idea june" is peak mbvcore.

didn't mention alex g in my initial post, but he def feels like a touchstone

Kieran Press-Reynolds uses the cloud-rock label for Chanel Beads in his Pitchfork review too, I now see

Of all the so-called “cloud-rock” bands dissolving the line between analog and digital, merging the elliptical folk of Alex G with Dean Blunt’s sunken haze, Chanel Beads have the most evocative melodies and moments of unlikely beauty

Yep to Alex G

love "Tyler Richard." Since the video is posted twice, I took the opportunity to start them both a split second apart to great effect. I've already overplayed the new album.
I love the spaciousness of the music, and have always been a sucker for chorus-like sounding vocals.

oh whoops lol, meant to plug "outside your life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuk4KPO3rjk&

"Tyler Richard" sounds like a top 20 track on the ilm top 77 tracks countdown come the end of the year

oh this guy really likes alex g