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For many years, Taja Cheek lived two lives. As L’Rain, she made acclaimed music that was warm yet weird, steeped in exhilarating experimentation and heavy emotions. At the same time, she was navigating the art world, working at New York non-profit institutions like Creative Time and the Kitchen; she eventually landed at MoMA PS1, where she helped curate performance series like the Warm Up parties and Sunday Sessions. Cheek did her best all along to keep these two career paths separate. She worried one might be seen as a mark...
- 12/6/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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L’Rain’s Taja Cheek keeps everything she records: a voice note she made a couple days ago, a demo she recorded back in high school, it doesn’t matter. It could be mediocre, mortifying, or just kind of good; regardless, it’s saved somewhere — because one day, it might be brilliant. “I try to operate under the philosophy that there actually aren’t any bad ideas,” Cheek tells Rolling Stone, “just bad executions.”
Cheek regularly returns to these old recordings and ideas, and stitches and molds them into the wonderfully...
Cheek regularly returns to these old recordings and ideas, and stitches and molds them into the wonderfully...
- 9/27/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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Celebrated Brooklyn artist L’Rain has returned with her first new song in two years, “New Year’s UnResolution.”
Produced alongside Andrew Lapin and Ben Chapoteau-Katz, “New Year’s UnResolution” feels anchored by a freewheeling pop sensibility. The groove is brisk and bright, the synths as warm as the vocals, but still, “New Year’s UnResolution” doesn’t sacrifice any of the surreal, experimental flourishes that have defined L’Rain’s work.
In a statement, L’Rain’s Taja Cheek said the lyrics to “New Year’s UnResolution” were written at various points,...
Produced alongside Andrew Lapin and Ben Chapoteau-Katz, “New Year’s UnResolution” feels anchored by a freewheeling pop sensibility. The groove is brisk and bright, the synths as warm as the vocals, but still, “New Year’s UnResolution” doesn’t sacrifice any of the surreal, experimental flourishes that have defined L’Rain’s work.
In a statement, L’Rain’s Taja Cheek said the lyrics to “New Year’s UnResolution” were written at various points,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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