chanel beads - your time will come (2024) and your time will come (2026) and everything thereafter

yeah, this modern day peter gabriel released consecutive albums with the same name. probably favorite new hipster internet-y band out there, great mix of vibes and songs. wispy but never insubstantial. he feels like an american dean blunt, or a james ferraro who sings his own songs, maybe? i've seen people online call his music "cloud rock," which is dumb.

either way, both your day will come albums are excellent, the new one is taking over my life at the moment. maybe no single that stands out like "police scanner" or "embarrassed dog," but it tugs on the heartstrings a bit more.

"the coward forgets his nightmare"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8ejuvP0Z9o

"tyler richard"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3A4DruzO_c

"outside your life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3A4DruzO_c

and from the 2024 album

"police scanner"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFtf8YKwxA

"embarrassed dog"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIff2wH24H4

I mentioned them briefly on the Rolling Indie pop thread and yeah a number of folks calling them cloud rock. I kinda liked them on first listen.

maybe a post for another thread but...

we have these guys, gabriel, maxwell, and who else has multiple albums with the same title?
(not counting 'greatest hits' or similar tropes)

...but also yeah, these guys are rad. new album has a lot of storytelling 'ninth wave'-esque soundsuites and i'm a big fan. rym says they are "HYPNAGOGIC POP" but i think good old dream pop is a good enough descriptor. really like "outside your life" off the new one. the redux of "idea june" is peak mbvcore.

didn't mention alex g in my initial post, but he def feels like a touchstone

Kieran Press-Reynolds uses the cloud-rock label for Chanel Beads in his Pitchfork review too, I now see

Of all the so-called “cloud-rock” bands dissolving the line between analog and digital, merging the elliptical folk of Alex G with Dean Blunt’s sunken haze, Chanel Beads have the most evocative melodies and moments of unlikely beauty

Yep to Alex G

love "Tyler Richard." Since the video is posted twice, I took the opportunity to start them both a split second apart to great effect. I've already overplayed the new album.
I love the spaciousness of the music, and have always been a sucker for chorus-like sounding vocals.

oh whoops lol, meant to plug "outside your life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuk4KPO3rjk&

"Tyler Richard" sounds like a top 20 track on the ilm top 77 tracks countdown come the end of the year

oh this guy really likes alex g

it is remarkable how many melodies are recycled through this album and yet it works

been meaning to start the cloud rock thread for a while, basically post dean blunt art pop ... hypo-pop as a counter to the hyper variety?

deer park, patch+, h0p all worth checking out within this nascent/nebulous tendency, some also credit ML buch. i do notice a certain deracinated, "freeze dried" sound to certain production choices of these acts over the last few years that seems new and cohesive

the track

Chanel Beads - Outside Your Life

reminded me of Black Grape in the production / sound

Black Grape: It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah at 30 – one of music’s greatest comeback stories
https://theconversation.com/black-grape-its-great-when-youre-straight-yeah-at-30-one-of-musics-greatest-comeback-stories-261893

"Under the production of Danny Saber, Stephen Lironi and Ryder himself, Black Grape somehow fused rock, hip-hop, acid house, melodic pop, dub, reggae into a dazzling psychedelic whole. The result was both immediately accessible and yet nothing like anyone had ever heard before. Ryder puts it best when he wrote in his autobiography that the album “sounds like the best house party”."

Another reference point, from the 1990s

Bowery Electric - Beat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(Bowery_Electric_album)
1996

and another important cloud-rock reference point this decade

hoodie x james K - 065 (Scorpio)
https://ad93.bandcamp.com/album/065-scorpio
2023

I admittedly need to give Chanel Beads more of a shot--in terms of the post-Dean Blunt (and in this case, post-Archy Marshall) aspect of this 'cloud rock' descriptor now floating around, my mind immediately goes to GB's Gusse Music from 2024: https://gussemusic.bandcamp.com/album/gusse-music

interview:

Haunted hooks and bone-chilling screams: how Chanel Beads became the indie breakout of the year
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/27/chanel-beads-your-day-will-come-interview

idk what 'cloud rock' is supposed to be and i don't really hear dean blunt here, it's just like a version of alex g a little less rooted in indie rock

I like this album, an odd mix of defiance and despondency

On RYM a user has created this thematic list

Cloud Rock
A list by aircrickets
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/aircrickets/cloud-rock/

cloud rock fills a vernacular void that's become gaping over the still-developing post-pandemic musical landscape, blurring traditional pop and rock frameworks into something new--an indistinct yet very much real sensibility that has elements of dream pop, shoegaze, cloud rap, indietronica, and alt-pop, but isn't quite any of those idioms.

styles wavering in a fuzzy zone between digital and analogue, indie with a textural hookiness that feels sometimes indebted to ambient music and downtempo dance music, a laid-back psychedelic atmosphere (baggy), and a surreal, trippy, dreamy, and sometimes dark atmosphere (trip hop).

foundations are split equally between "internet music," a catch-all to encompass the borderless territories where post-Soundcloud rap, post-Oneohtrix Point Never electronica, and post-P.C. Music avant-pop have assimilated in recent years – and "indie rock."

all the neatness of pop, the controlled disorder of rock, the surreal textures of electronica, and the exotically dreary mood of internet-native rap. all evoke some deep inner feelings, unable to be fully expressed, through sounds that sound deliberately broken, busted up, low-fidelity, low-effort even.

If 2010s bedroom pop instilled an emotional intimacy and homely quality despite its hi-fi sound, then this music could be termed “anti-bedroom pop”, evoking emotional detachment, dejection and an unheimlich quality.

yea seems like a silly catch-all term that groups together lots of dissimilar acts that are popular online

and a direct reference to “cloud rap” which most of this does not sound like at all

not a snark but what does popular online even mean anymore? you're right it's incoherent but so our are digitalized cultural inputs

if there's an artist that matches that above description it would be organ tapes, whose recent EP made for good music to navigate decaying snow piles this winter

does the name rhyme with "anal beads" ?

it is remarkable how many melodies are recycled through this album and yet it works

alexa what is a motif

Haven't heard Chanel Beads before, but I really like it. I like most cloud rock, also kinda like the name. Best description I've seen is that it's kinda the opposite of post-rock. Instead of rock-musicians moving into hiphop and electronic sounds, it's people who has grown up in a post-genre internet world moving into indierock with all that they know from cloud rap and the altered zones.

Obviously, I also like it because the Copenhagen sound influenced it a lot.

yea seems like a silly catch-all term that groups together lots of dissimilar acts that are popular online

yeah like idk what a.s.o., who are just doing straight up trip hop pastiche, are supposed to have in common with alex g, who is making indie rock but at least sometimes sounds like he's been listening to a lot of hyperpop

Who is calling a.s.o. cloud rock? They're not on the iceberg

they were in that rym list djmartian linked

but even the pic you linked (lol ninaprotocol) feels like it's lumping together a bunch of barely related things together for unclear reasons

I think Alex G + Dean Blunt sorta makes sense as a description, but even the best blog on cloud rock I've seen mentioned Nourished By Time, which I don't hear at all.

i don't really see how dean blunt and alex g fit together, let alone nourished by time

the rym list also has bar italia on it, which…they’re just a pretty good, but pretty traditional indie rock band

bar italia are at least vaguely related to dean blunt, they were on his label and he produced some of their early stuff

even if bar italia are just a pretty traditional indie rock band yeah

which goes to show that it’s just a catch-all term for a bunch of vaguely connected sounds and scenes

Alex G and Dean Blunt don't sound alike, which is why you can combine them and create something new :)

It doesn't sound like neither a.s.o. nor Nourished by Time, though.

im sure this is how people felt when internet indie bands started to be referred to as “chillwave,” but at least that term was intentionally ironic and playfully derisive

carles was trying to make fun of people just as much as (if not more than) he was trying to categorize anything

Tenuous connections perhaps but Im enjoying a lot of this stuff

Someone made a Spotify playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Wvo1KvQVnSEKxfnz1E11n?si=Xy1cyzUYRKKkit10ozgFuA&utm_source=copy-link&pi=EoNqCY9aRSC13