L’Rain

Multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer L’Rain aka Taja Cheek returns with her third album I Killed Your Dog. Over-writing themes of grief and identity that informed her previous work, I Killed Your Dog considers what it means to hurt the people you love the most. Multi-layered in subject and form, L’Rain’s sonic explorations interrogate instead how multiplicities of emotion and experience intersect with identity. The experimental and the hyper-commercial; the expectation and the reality; the hope and the despair. “I’m envisioning a world of contradictions, as always,” Cheek explains. “Sensual, maybe even sexy, but terrifying, and strange.” Written amidst heartbreaks from the perspective of an earned maturity, I Killed Your Dog takes the sonic world laid out by L’Rain in 2021’s album Fatigue on a compelling new trajectory.

Embaci is an artist, performer, and composer recognised for her celestial voice and lyricism. Since her debut in 2016 with the music collective NON-Worldwide, she has established herself as an international artist who can hold her own as a multidisciplinary virtuoso.