Current Joys

Quartyard

This is an all ages event at Quartyard - San Diego.Since 2013 Current Joys’ output has been prolific. Within six months of beginning the project, Current Joys had already released its debut, Wild Heart; by 2018, the sixth Current Joys full length and visual album, A Different Age, was out.&nbsp; Each piece of Current Joys’ early discography is wholly built and envisioned by Rattigan, self recorded and quickly released, quivering with a lonely intensity.&nbsp;In his later works, Rattigan’s songwriting/recording approaches have continued to change and evolve. From Voyager with it’s bristling, sentimental rock ‘n’ roll cacophony overlaid with a soundtrack orchestra to LOVE + POP’s aggressive, deconstructed production, house music influence, and even a guest appearance from Lil Yachty. On his latest album, East My Love, Rattigan turns inward using country music and transcendental folk to quell his own personal struggles.&nbsp;All the while, Current Joys’ profile quickly and quietly ascended, selling out tour after tour at venues like LA’s The Wiltern, Paris’ Trabendo and Sydney’s The Factory, simultaneously amassing over a billion combined streams and a dedicated following.&nbsp;Current Joys is held together by the fervor of Rattigan’s creative process. He believes in the premonitory power of music, regardless of genre and he latches onto the song ideas that strike him in the moment, propelled by an abstract existentialism or burst of feeling more than anything else.

To classify Different Talking as a return to form, or at least a return to the lush directness of earlier Frankie Cosmos records, would be rude but also wholly incorrect: as Different Talking makes clear, you can never return to the comfort and bravery of your early twenties, but that person always kind of lives inside you, no matter how much you change. Different Talking is about finding that person, honoring them, and learning from them. “A lot of the album is about being grown up and figuring out how to know yourself – like, ‘What is moving on?’” says Kline. “How do we move on when we’re addicted to a cycle of haunting our own past? Writing songs is just the way through that.”Kline has been a fixture of the American indie underground since her late teens when her prolific Bandcamp releases and 2014 indie-label debut Zentropy led her to be dubbed “the poet laureate of New York City DIY.” A tag like that is a lot for young shoulders to take on, but it’s hard to deny the singular influence she has had on contemporary pop music. If the idea of a young woman picking up a synth in her bedroom, putting a couple of songs on the internet, and quickly becoming a superstar is now de rigeur, it’s because Kline – along with a handful of other artists and writers – normalized and exalted ideas of (female) DIY genius long before they were pinned to moodboards in major-label marketing offices.

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