L'RAIN - I Killed Your Dog - LP - Oxblood Vinyl

LP - Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Oxblood Coloured Vinyl.   

Multi-instrumentalist and composer L’Rain returns with her third album I Killed Your Dog. Described by L’Rain’s Taja Cheek as an “anti-break-up” record, I Killed Your Dog takes the universal pop theme of love as its starting point – bold, bratty and even a touch diabolical – and inspects it through the form of a conversation with her younger self, untangling her relationship with femininity and the formal musical conventions that others have come to expect of her.

“I’m envisioning a world of contradictions, as always,” Cheek explains. “Sensual, maybe even sexy, but terrifying, and strange.” Written amidst heartbreaks from the perspective of an earned maturity, I Killed Your Dog takes the sonic world laid out by L’Rain in 2021’s album Fatigue on a compelling new trajectory. Over-writing themes of grief and identity to consider what it means to hurt those you love the most.

While the specifics may be hidden from view, I Killed Your Dog is an invitation to experience the big emotions of life through L’Rain’s prismatic lens. Pieced together like snippets of found sound, L’Rain is edging towards a practice that resists disciplinary categorization and instead reflects the messiness of the self in all its fullness.

Tracklist: 

A1. Sincerity Commercial
A2. Our Funeral
A3. Pet Rock
A4. I Hate My Best Friends
A5. I Killed Your Dog
A6. All the Days You Remember
A7. 5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG)

B1. Sometimes
B2. r(EMOTE)
B3. Uncertainty Principle
B4. Oh Wow, a Bird!
B5. Knead Bee
B6. Monsoon of Regret
B7. Clumsy
B8. What’s That Song?
B9. New Year's UnResolution