{"product_id":"vinyl-current-joys-east-my-love-colored-vinyl-olive","title":"Current Joys - East My Love (Colored Vinyl, Olive)","description":"East My Love, the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCurrent Joys, feels familiar. It's meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edeep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand trauma, heartbreak and spiritual renewal. Cast with a warm glow and\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efinding Current Joys' Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ehigh-fidelity production to date, it's the kind of album that listeners could see\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethemselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they're most in need of\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ereassurance or escapism. For Rattigan, though, it's all that and more.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRattigan wrote East My Love alone in the woods in Tennessee, with\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eno cell reception and nobody in earshot for miles. Composed three years\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ebefore Love + Pop, the experimental pop double record he released in 2023\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand 2024, the songs on East My Love felt too raw to confront until he felt well\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand truly out from underneath the cloud that had been cast over him.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRattigan describes the songs as \"landmines\" that, for years, threatened to\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eupend his carefully balanced mental state. \"They were just triggers that\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewould put me back in this emotional space, and I think eventually I got to a\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eplace where they were more comforting,\" he recalls. \"That's what I hope\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epeople find out of the record - a solace from any anxieties or depressions.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong with that comfort comes pain, and an acknowledgement\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethat any repair requires some level of breakage. Lead single \"California Rain\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eacts like a tableau depicting Rattigan's attempt to escape his demons, it's\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eplacid lyrics a distinct counterpoint to the tidal-wave production: \"Isn't it nice\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eto get away?\/Clearing my head up, and dull away the pain.\" It speaks to the\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ealbum's constant coin-toss between peace and chaos: \"It's like you're trying to\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eoutrun your demons, but at a certain point, they become your friend, and you\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ehave to walk alongside them,\" says Rattigan. \"I feel like you don't know that\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewhen you're suppressing them - when you're hiding them in the rain.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt other points, Rattigan is more clear-eyed about the struggle of\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emoving forward; opening track \"Echoes of the Past,\" aches with the\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eacknowledgement that inner peace exists on a knife's edge. \"The world won't\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eend in blazing fire and brimstone - it'll end from us not learning from our past\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand our mistakes,\" says Rattigan.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere's a purity of catharsis that runs through these songs; written\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewithout pretense, they take base human needs and desires and fit them into\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ea grander tradition of American songwriting that takes in everything from\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWillie Nelson to Bright Eyes. True to that, many of the songs on East My Love,\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edue to their outside-looking-in perspective, play like standards. \"Slowly Like\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Wind,\" a simple voice-and-guitar ballad, finds Rattigan reassuring his\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esubject that \"slowly like the wind\" he'll help push them in the right direction\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ein times of need. On \"Lullaby for the Lost,\" which feels parched but\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eemotionally rich, he urges himself to remember that \"we'll get oh so strong\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edespite the depths of despair he may be feeling in the moment. \"I wanted it\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eto be very slow and meditative, with these punctuations of lyrics that I really\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewanted to stick out. 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