The second album from the Chanel Beads project from Shane Lavers, the New York-based artist whose smear-on-tape, indie-pop-meets-glitched-electronic work has been one of the more singular voices in contemporary American underground music was just released.
Lavers’ approach pulls warm guitar tones, dub-adjacent space and emotionally direct songwriting into one disarming spindly and melodic whole, and Your Day Will Come feels like his most direct statement yet.
Chanel Beads + Urika’s Bedroom – Opium, Dublin, Tuesday November 3rd 2026. Tickets €26 including booking fee, on general sale Friday July 3rd at 10am.
About Chanel Beads
Chanel Beads is the work of Shane Lavers, who began making music under that name in Seattle back in 2016, collaging synthetic sounds and real instruments into songs that have always been allergic to genre. Tracks like ‘Ef’ and ‘True Altruism’ captivated certain online circles after he relocated to New York in 2022, built on androgynous vocals and uncanny artifice that felt stirring rather than cold. The project has since gone from house shows and illegal abandoned train tunnel gigs to supporting Lorde on her recent North American arena tour – a trajectory that hasn’t softened any of the underground instinct at the centre of the music.
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New album Your Day Will Come shares its title with his 2024 breakthrough debut, deliberately – not a sequel or a rehash, but a phrase Lavers found carried more weight the longer he sat with it. The title started as a dig at the way music gets sorted into eras and chapters, but ended up capturing something closer to the actual tension running through the record: the duel between certainty and doubt. Will your day come? What will it be like? How can you be sure?
He made the album in his small, sparsely furnished Brooklyn studio, speakers close enough to his face that he could feel the kick drum’s air on every thump. The process is deliberately unfussy – record into whatever microphone is around, work the song into the recording rather than the other way round, no demos ever. Lavers: “We start the recording before the song is written, and then you work the song into the recording. We don’t make demos, that’s a hard and fast rule. Which we’ll break eventually.”
Lyrically the album sits with the coexistence of nihilism and love – “it feels as if one should obliterate the other, but they don’t” – using dream logic to explore liminality, loss and the way old habits can haunt you back into old versions of yourself.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
