Brooklyn experimentalist L'Rain sat down with Paste and walked us through each track from her latest album 'I Killed Your Dog.'
her third record as L’Rain. The Brooklyn singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist is no stranger to pushing her compositions to their absolute limits, entangling foreboding clips of ambient droning with trampling dance beats and breathy, soulful vocalizations.is the logical next step in the experimental musician’s career, as we see her settling even more comfortably into the lush garden of sound she so often creates.break-up album.
It honestly still feels horrible saying the title of the song and record. That’s also the point. It’s aggressive and contrarian but also deeply confusing in a sense: Is the title an act of maliciousness and revenge or an expression of remorse and regret? Dogs sometimes show up in my lyrics as a metaphor for things and people I love . Dogs function in the same way this time, too.
The title is meant to feel very visceral and to reproduce a fraction of the hurt we feel when important relationships end. I also hope that it casts doubt on me as a narrator and to resist any urge for listeners to think of me as a role model . I also wanted to bring more depth to the recorded project and to showcase a tiny bit of the chaotic, frenetic, raw energy of the live show in the title.
The structure of this song references Joan Baez’s “Here’s To You” and also Bach’s last work, which featured compositional puzzles. The particular work I am referencing resolves one half-step higher after each iteration of the main phrase. Like “Love on Top” of course.
In the beginning of the song when I whisper “I killed your dog,” it will sound like it’s coming from the inside of your own head if you’re sitting in the right position in front of your speakers.Each L’Rain record so far contains some reference to a birthday. It’s an easter egg for the listeners and also a challenge for myself. You’ll hear “to you,” which is a snippet of someone singing “happy birthday” to someone I love.
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