I've always thought that so-called hypnagogic pop is the perfect music for the heatwave. To close your eyes and let thoughts and memories flow behind sweat-sticky eyelids. The perfect soundtrack for when dreams and reality mix, burned by the sun like in a story by John Fante. Far from the maximalist synth baths of the chillwave of Washed Out and Neon Indian, the formula hypna pop by Chanel Beads features delicate circular guitar arpeggios, piano echoes and drum machines velvety, as well as on processed winds and strings, to build a dreamy scenario at the crossroads between Brian Wilson and AR Kane.
Titled exactly like the band's first album, this new “Your Day Will Come”, starting from the reiteration of the title, seems to want to prolong the wait for the arrival of the fateful day. Mourning, memory, uncertainty as a permanent condition are in fact, once again, the essence of the thoughts that Shane Lavers makes float in a liquid and enveloping musical space, which also incorporates environmental elements such as telephone rings and messages left on the answering machine.
In this musical half-sleep, obsessive and bittersweet refrains come to life (“Song For The Messenger”, “The Coward Forgets His Nightmare”), the desires entrusted to a bonfire are remembered (“JBL In The Fireplace”) and love is celebrated as the only, saving hold.
Even if the second half of the album is less incisive than the first, with the tendency to leave the ideas only sketched rather than fully developing them as happens in the first part, this “Your Day Will Come” number two confirms and improves everything that Chanel Beads had shown us with the debut. Anyone who finds comfort in fuzzy and melancholy musical universes will certainly find an unmissable lineup in the New York trio.
01/07/2026
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
