If there was ever a statement on the (welcome, long overdue) death of genre, historians may well look back and pinpoint Nick "Current Joys" Rattigan's 2023 album LOVE + POP as the giddy obituary. The Surf Curse drummer and vocalist has always kept us guessing, but few could have guessed his next big move would include a Lil Yachty duet, a Lil Peep cover, and some batshit production, house influences, and wholehearted embracing of modern music's rainbow-vomit approach to influence. The album is a bonkers thrill ride, and hats off to Secretly Canadian for giving it a happy home. - Flying Out
LOVE + POP is a snapshot of a moment in not-so-far-away time; something fast, loud, moody and a little dangerous. It is, in some ways, classic Current Joys: full of wild ambition, sneaky hooks, and songs that move from concept to completion with prolific speed. But LOVE + POP also explodes myriad expectations with aggressive, deconstructed production, house music influence, and a guest appearance from Lil Yachty. It is not so much a twist as it is a unique multiverse identity for Current Joys, as Nick Rattigan’s set out to “capture this sonic moment and harken back to the way I first released music.”The story of LOVE + POP begins with one of those house parties: the kind that bulldozes your home and, in its aftermath, leaves a wreckage that finds you flattened but also ready to be new. In that mess and mayhem, Rattigan watched Everybody’s Everything, the documentary of Lil Peep, and recorded a cover of “walk away as the door slams”. But the itch wasn’t scratched, and what began as a moment of homage morphed into something bigger, deeper and more fundamental, a point where the seemingly haphazard – in his home, in Peep’s process – opened Rattigan up to an entire creative space and a new approach to bending or even detonating genre.
Tracklist
- Walk Away as the Door Slams
- Love + Pop Feat. Your Angel
- Gatsby
- My Shadow Life Feat. Oddbody
- Cigarettes
- BB Put on Deftones
- Dr Satan
- Moon Sickness
- Rock N Roll Dreams
- I Feel Truth Inside of U
- 3LEFANT
- U R the Reason