Current Joys LOVE + POP Vinyl LP Neon Green Colour 2023
Neon Green Colour Vinyl
Tracklist:
1. Walk Away as the Door Slams (feat. Your Angel)
2. LOVE + POP (feat. Your Angel)
3. Gatsby (feat. Lil Yachty)
4. My Shadow Life (feat. Oddbody)
5. CIGARETTES
6. bb put on deftones
7. Dr Satan
8. Moon Sickness
9. Rock n Roll Dreams (feat. Brutus VIII)
10. I feel truth inside of u
11. 3lefant (feat. Slow Hollows)
12. U R THE REASON
LOVE + POP is a snapshot of a moment in not-so-far-away time;something fast, loud, moody and a little dangerous. It is, in someways, classic Current Joys: full of wild ambition, sneaky hooks, andsongs that move from concept to completion with prolific speed. But LOVE + POP also explodes myriad expectations with aggressive,deconstructed production, house music influence, and a guest appearance from Lil Yachty. It is not so much a twist as it is a uniquemultiverse identity for Current Joys, as Nick Rattigan’s set out to“capture this sonic moment and harken back to the way I first released music.”
The story of LOVE + POP begins with one of those house parties:the kind that bulldozes your home and, in its aftermath, leaves awreckage that finds you flattened but also ready to be new. In that mess and mayhem, Rattigan watched Everybody’s Everything, the documentary of Lil Peep, and recorded a cover of “walk away asthe door slams”. But the itch wasn’t scratched, and what began asa moment of homage morphed into something bigger, deeper and more fundamental, a point where the seemingly haphazard – in his home, in Peep’s process – opened Rattigan up to an entire creativespace and a new approach to bending or even detonating genre.
Crucially, all of this was recorded at home, in what Rattigancalls a “tribute to the process of creating” in a DIY space. And what began as a singular passion project unexpectedly grew intoa uniquely collaborative record for Current Joys. “I’ve set out to make collaborative records before,” Rattigan explains, “but theyoften end up totally me, with just a couple exceptions. But then this record gave me the opportunity to be extremely collaborative,to let other people write instrumental tracks, sending links around for people to mess with and weigh in on. I sat down to do credits and realized here were all these people and styles and they all came together and worked.”
LOVE + POP’s cover art is an airbrush/spraypaint rendition of the Wild Heart album cover, which is itself a photo of Rattigan’s grandparents kissing. It is sacred in some ways and shredded in others. This idea – the aggressive reimagining of something timelessinto a present, finite style – is LOVE + POP.