{"product_id":"current-joys-east-my-love","title":"Current Joys- East My Love ( Vinyl )","description":"\u003cp\u003eEast My Love, the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by\r\nCurrent Joys, feels familiar. It's meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive\r\ndeep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love\r\nand trauma, heartbreak and spiritual renewal. Cast with a warm glow and\r\nfinding Current Joys' Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most\r\nhigh-fidelity production to date, it's the kind of album that listeners could see\r\nthemselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they're most in need of\r\nreassurance or escapism. For Rattigan, though, it's all that and more.\r\nRattigan wrote East My Love alone in the woods in Tennessee, with\r\nno cell reception and nobody in earshot for miles. Composed three years\r\nbefore Love + Pop, the experimental pop double record he released in 2023\r\nand 2024, the songs on East My Love felt too raw to confront until he felt well\r\nand truly out from underneath the cloud that had been cast over him.\r\nRattigan describes the songs as \"landmines\" that, for years, threatened to\r\nupend his carefully balanced mental state. \"They were just triggers that\r\nwould put me back in this emotional space, and I think eventually I got to a\r\nplace where they were more comforting,\" he recalls. \"That's what I hope\r\npeople find out of the record - a solace from any anxieties or depressions.\"\r\nAlong with that comfort comes pain, and an acknowledgement\r\nthat any repair requires some level of breakage. Lead single \"California Rain\"\r\nacts like a tableau depicting Rattigan's attempt to escape his demons, it's\r\nplacid lyrics a distinct counterpoint to the tidal-wave production: \"Isn't it nice\r\nto get away?\/Clearing my head up, and dull away the pain.\" It speaks to the\r\nalbum's constant coin-toss between peace and chaos: \"It's like you're trying to\r\noutrun your demons, but at a certain point, they become your friend, and you\r\nhave to walk alongside them,\" says Rattigan. \"I feel like you don't know that\r\nwhen you're suppressing them - when you're hiding them in the rain.\"\r\nAt other points, Rattigan is more clear-eyed about the struggle of\r\nmoving forward; opening track \"Echoes of the Past,\" aches with the\r\nacknowledgement that inner peace exists on a knife's edge. \"The world won't\r\nend in blazing fire and brimstone - it'll end from us not learning from our past\r\nand our mistakes,\" says Rattigan.\r\nThere's a purity of catharsis that runs through these songs; written\r\nwithout pretense, they take base human needs and desires and fit them into\r\na grander tradition of American songwriting that takes in everything from\r\nWillie Nelson to Bright Eyes. True to that, many of the songs on East My Love,\r\ndue to their outside-looking-in perspective, play like standards. \"Slowly Like\r\nThe Wind,\" a simple voice-and-guitar ballad, finds Rattigan reassuring his\r\nsubject that \"slowly like the wind\" he'll help push them in the right direction\r\nin times of need. On \"Lullaby for the Lost,\" which feels parched but\r\nemotionally rich, he urges himself to remember that \"we'll get oh so strong\"\r\ndespite the depths of despair he may be feeling in the moment. \"I wanted it\r\nto be very slow and meditative, with these punctuations of lyrics that I really\r\nwanted to stick out. I felt like it was powerful to accentuate certain points, but\r\nalso let the song be a meditative comfort to the listener.\" That comfort can be\r\ntraced back to an idea at the core of East My Love that Rattigan describes\r\nsimply: \"Everyone deserves peace of mind.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEchoes of the Past\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e California Rain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Days of Heaven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Never Seen a Rose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lullaby for the Lost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Oh Sister\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e They Shoot Horses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Slowly Like the Windtormenta\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sister Christian\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e East My Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Feelin' Groovy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57420786925903,"sku":"656605048611","price":3.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/8725\/2047\/files\/4359202-3205404.jpg?v=1775628542","url":"https:\/\/vibesvinyl.com\/products\/current-joys-east-my-love","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}