Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing [Metallic Gold Vinyl]

NNA TAPES

£25.18

Cat. no: LPNNA149C
Format: LP Indie Exclusive Metallic Gold Vinyl
Barcode: 309272740110
Release Date: 14 Oct 2022
Genre: Electronic/Ambient/Drone

Heaven Come Crashing, the sophomore electronic full-length from Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar, fnds the protean guitarist and producer leaving behind the ghostly netherworlds of her debut in favor of vivid, fuorescent, cinematic maximalism.

On her debut, Our Hands Against the Dusk, Nayar used her guitar as the primary source for sound design, mutating the instrument beyond recognition through layers of digital processing

Soon after, the album’s companion EP, fragments, demonstrated the types of raw guitar- playing that would be transfgured into those grander compositions — miniature genre sketches that touched upon everything from post- rock to Midwestern emo.

Heaven Come Crashing retains Nayar’s mangled guitar stylings but expands the color palette by looking not so much to the fretboard, as to the dance foor and the silver screen. Infuences enter into the frame ranging from 90s trance, to early M83, to Yoko Kanno anime soundtracks. With its M1 piano stabs, supersaws, and glimpses of Amen breaks, the album charts a luminescent space between 5 a.m. warehouse raves and the urban freeways of its cover image—romantic, nocturnal, and reckless in its velocity and emotional abandon.

Regarding this interpretation, Nayar says: “I both love and feel so wary of melodrama, because its inherent nature is to be uncritical. It’s just unabashed emotion taken at face value. And isn’t that so fraught when feelings originate with structures you can’t control, that you maybe even feel at war with?”

Within this conficted relationship to its own theatrics, the album wages a battle between surrendering to desire and incinerating it. Heaven Come Crashing invites the listener to revel within fantasy, before helping light the match to burn it down —one fnal embrace in the dream world before it shatters to pieces. Pressed on Metallic Gold color vinyl.

Tracks: Our Wretched Fantasy / Tetramorph / Death & Limerence / Nausea / Promises / Gayatri / Heaven Come Crashing (ft. maria bc) / Sleepless / The Price of Serenity