L'Rain - I Killed Your Dog (Oxblood Vinyl)

L'Rain - I Killed Your Dog (Oxblood Vinyl)Multi instrumentalist and composer LRain returns with her third album I Killed Your Dog. Described by LRains Taja Cheek as an anti break up record, I Killed Your Dog takes the universal pop theme of love as its starting point bold, bratty and even a touch diabolical and inspects it through the form of a conversation with her younger self, untangling her relationship with femininity and the formal musical conventions that others have come to expect of

then in the album's production

” stated NPR at the time

which was recorded by Don Godwin at Tonal Park in Takoma Park

is their most direct and uncompromising LP yet

" Most importantly

The noir quality

Reportedly created during a time of great psychological upheaval for group leader Robert Smith

and Frankie Cosmos

Vice has heralded their music as “unpredictable and expansive

From the opening synth swell and drum machine throb of “Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh’ Kto Ya

as painful and discordant as it is joyous and melodic

The trio's free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly