Name: Heaven Come Crashing
Brand: Rachika Nayar

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Catalogue number

LP-NNA-149X

Colour

Gold

Colour details

Metallic Gold/Black Galaxy

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Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Deluxe Edition

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-08-25

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Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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309272739268

Total Cap

Gold LP

Artist

Rachika Nayar

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

NNA Tapes

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 favor 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?”

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