{"product_id":"current-joys-east-my-love-lp","title":"Current Joys - East My Love LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eEast My Love, the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by \u003cspan\u003eCurrent Joys, feels familiar. It's meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edeep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand trauma, heartbreak and spiritual renewal. Cast with a warm glow and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efinding Current Joys' Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehigh-fidelity production to date, it's the kind of album that listeners could see \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethemselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they're most in need of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereassurance or escapism. For Rattigan, though, it's all that and more. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRattigan wrote East My Love alone in the woods in Tennessee, with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eno cell reception and nobody in earshot for miles. Composed three years \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebefore Love + Pop, the experimental pop double record he released in 2023 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand 2024, the songs on East My Love felt too raw to confront until he felt well \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand truly out from underneath the cloud that had been cast over him. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRattigan describes the songs as \"landmines\" that, for years, threatened to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eupend his carefully balanced mental state. \"They were just triggers that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewould put me back in this emotional space, and I think eventually I got to a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eplace where they were more comforting,\" he recalls. \"That's what I hope \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epeople find out of the record - a solace from any anxieties or depressions.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong with that comfort comes pain, and an acknowledgement \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat any repair requires some level of breakage. Lead single \"California Rain\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eacts like a tableau depicting Rattigan's attempt to escape his demons, it's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eplacid lyrics a distinct counterpoint to the tidal-wave production: \"Isn't it nice \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto get away?\/Clearing my head up, and dull away the pain.\" It speaks to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealbum's constant coin-toss between peace and chaos: \"It's like you're trying to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eoutrun your demons, but at a certain point, they become your friend, and you \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehave to walk alongside them,\" says Rattigan. \"I feel like you don't know that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhen you're suppressing them - when you're hiding them in the rain.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt other points, Rattigan is more clear-eyed about the struggle of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emoving forward; opening track \"Echoes of the Past,\" aches with the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eacknowledgement that inner peace exists on a knife's edge. \"The world won't \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eend in blazing fire and brimstone - it'll end from us not learning from our past \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand our mistakes,\" says Rattigan. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere's a purity of catharsis that runs through these songs; written \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewithout pretense, they take base human needs and desires and fit them into \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea grander tradition of American songwriting that takes in everything from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWillie Nelson to Bright Eyes. True to that, many of the songs on East My Love, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edue to their outside-looking-in perspective, play like standards. \"Slowly Like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Wind,\" a simple voice-and-guitar ballad, finds Rattigan reassuring his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esubject that \"slowly like the wind\" he'll help push them in the right direction \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein times of need. On \"Lullaby for the Lost,\" which feels parched but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eemotionally rich, he urges himself to remember that \"we'll get oh so strong\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edespite the depths of despair he may be feeling in the moment. \"I wanted it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto be very slow and meditative, with these punctuations of lyrics that I really \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewanted to stick out. I felt like it was powerful to accentuate certain points, but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealso let the song be a meditative comfort to the listener.\" That comfort can be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etraced back to an idea at the core of East My Love that Rattigan describes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esimply: \"Everyone deserves peace of mind.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1378651075\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/track=4055436443\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"Standard Black Vinyl","offer_id":54387924631845,"sku":"sxi1793847312586","price":18.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ltd Olive Vinyl","offer_id":54387924664613,"sku":"uyk1793847312587","price":14.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/0864\/8229\/files\/current-joys---east-my-love-lp_1.jpg?v=1793847317","url":"https:\/\/miashade.shop\/products\/current-joys-east-my-love-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}