There’s a lot of announcements coming in the next couple of weeks. I have to prepare you for that. There will be lots of newsletters and lots of social media posting and maybe I’ll even have an Instagram Reel where I’m looking at the camera and telling you about [insert announcement here]. For this one, I’m keeping it simple: there’s a new LAVAGXRL album.
Sometimes you put out an album that you work on for years. Sometimes you need the photo shoot, the music videos, the release show, the merch, etc etc. It’s a part of what makes a release fun (and expensive). But sometimes you just need to get music out in the world and let it get to as many ears as possible. That’s what trust fall is. Originally released only on SoundCloud and Bandcamp, LAVAGXRL put together this collection of songs which came together in the winter of 2024 and is available everywhere now with a new song added on.
More about their new album below, as well as the usual EveryDejaVu reminders!
LAVAGXRL’s trust fall came together over the winter of 2024 and into 2025. A lot of it was built from looping instruments, field recordings, analog synths, guitar, and really subtle vocals that take the role of an instrument more than a singing voice. It feels like a blanket during colder months, which makes it nice that it’s coming out right as the warmer weather is (hopefully) sticking around.
Haasan Barclay returns fresh off his collaborative project, Bell Biv Barclay, with “PACE.” A high energy, guitar driven anthem about keeping momentum and staying untouchable rooted in a riff dating back to hearing Joy Division, landing between Killing Joke and 2017 era Playboi Carti.
“Fatboi Sharif doesn’t just rap over the druggy haze of Child Actor’s beats for the album’s duration; he becomes a Poet Laureate for the lucid nightmare containing a netherworld creeping beneath where he and everyone stand. The sedated “Assassination Tapes” imagines a backwards world where revolutionaries of our time never made it to primetime (“in Times Square, Tupac is working at McDonalds for 12 dollars an hour”) while the fake becomes the iconic (“informants yelled ‘black power’”), the grimy off-kilter follower “How to Disinfect a Live Grenade” describes a local, budding war, and the deceptively wavy “Night Terrors” threatens such thing to creep into his imagination.”
Come say hi! All of our blog posts, label news, etc are posted in there. You can submit your own music to our blog, share for feedback, talk about what you’re listening to, or just share bad jokes. I’m here for all of it!
Updated with every new song we release, as well as focus tracks from the albums & EPs.
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