Name: Heaven Come Crashing
Brand: Rachika Nayar

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LPNNA149X

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Gold

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Metallic Gold / Black

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Release date

2023-08-25

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309272739268

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Gold LP

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Rachika Nayar

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Modern Composition

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NNA Tapes

NNA Tapes is a cassette and record label established in 2008 in Burlington, Vermont USA. Founded, operated, and curated by Toby Aronson and Matthew Mayer, NNA is dedicated to releasing the highest quality contemporary music on cassette, CD, vinyl, and digital formats.

With a passion for supporting emerging artists and pushing the boundaries of musical expression, NNA Tapes has become a prominent force in the independent music scene. Their diverse roster showcases a wide range of genres including experimental electronic music, avant-garde compositions, ambient soundscapes, and more.

Known for their meticulous attention to detail and commitment to sonic excellence, NNA Tapes takes pride in delivering exceptional physical releases that capture the essence of each artist's vision. Whether it's the warm nostalgia of a cassette tape or the crisp fidelity of vinyl records, they ensure that every format offers an immersive listening experience.

Rachika Nayar is a Brooklyn-based musician. With her unique blend of electronic and experimental sounds, she has captivated audiences worldwide. Her music is characterized by intricate layers of guitar loops, ethereal melodies, and hypnotic rhythms. Rachika's compositions are deeply introspective and often explore themes of identity, memory, and connection. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of genres including ambient, post-rock, and shoegaze, she creates immersive sonic landscapes that transport listeners to another realm. Whether performing live or in the studio, Rachika's passion for pushing boundaries shines through in every note.

As a classically trained guitarist turned electronic artist, Rachika brings a fresh perspective to the world of music production. She seamlessly combines traditional instrumentation with cutting-edge technology to create her signature soundscapes. Through her use of effects pedals and looping techniques, she is able to build richly textured compositions that unfold organically over time.

In addition to her solo work, Rachika has collaborated with various artists across different mediums such as dance and film. Her versatility as a musician allows her to adapt to different creative environments while still maintaining her distinctive style.

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Heaven Come Crashing, the sophomore electronic full-length from Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar, finds the protean guitarist and producer leaving behind the ghostly netherworlds of her debut in favour of vivid, fluorescent, cinematic maximalism.On her debut, Our Hands Against the Dusk, Nayar used her guitar as the primary source for sound design, mutating the instrument beyond recognition through layers of digital processing

Soon after, the album's companion EP, fragments, demonstrated the types of raw guitar- playing that would be transfigured into those grander compositions — miniature genre sketches that touched upon everything from post- rock to Midwestern emo. Heaven Come Crashing retains Nayar's mangled guitar stylings but expands the color palette by looking not so much to the fretboard, as to the dance floor and the silver screen. Influences enter into the frame ranging from 90s trance, to early M83, to Yoko Kanno anime soundtracks. With its M1 piano stabs, supersaws, and glimpses of Amen breaks, the album charts a luminescent space between 5 a.m. warehouse raves and the urban freeways of its cover image—romantic, nocturnal, and reckless in its velocity and emotional abandon.

Regarding this interpretation, Nayar says: "I both love and feel so wary of melodrama, because its inherent nature is to be uncritical. It's just unabashed emotion taken at face value. And isn't that so fraught when feelings originate with structures you can't control, that you maybe even feel at war with?" Within this conflicted relationship to its own theatrics, the album wages a battle between surrendering to desire and incinerating it. Heaven Come Crashing invites the listener to revel within fantasy, before helping light the match to burn it down— one final embrace in the dream world before it shatters to pieces.

Heaven Come Crashing

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