L’RAIN – I Killed Your Dog – LP – Oxblood Vinyl

LP – Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Oxblood ColouredVinyl.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer LRain returns with her third album I Killed Your Dog. Described by LRains 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.

Im 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 LRain in 2021s 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 LRains prismatic lens. Pieced together like snippets of found sound, LRain 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. Whats That Song?
B9. New Year’s UnResolution