Chanel Beads

Handsome Tours are proud to present Chanel Beads - the project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers' - first-ever Australian shows this June.

At once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human experience, Chanel Beads’ 2024 debut album Your Day Will Come announced Shane Lavers as a new force in experimental music. Featuring acclaimed singles ‘Police Scanner’ and ‘Embarrassed Dog’, throughout the album Lavers captures the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world. Though he incorporates the scrappy sonics of post-punk, the gripping sentimentality of pop tunes, and the spectral artifice of electronic music, he blurs lines through unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artifacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitory and timeless.

Featuring songs that wrestled with loss that rippled through his life, foundational to the way he sees himself and the way he relates to others, Your Day Will Come was a breakthrough album for Chanel Beads. Praised locally across fbi radio (Packet Feature Album), triple j, 3RRR, PBS FM and more globally through Pitchfork, PAPER, Perfectly Imperfect, NTS and The Lot Radio among others, his debut was cherished as “complex, melancholic music that intentionally resists being placed in time” (Crack Magazine).

Continuing to break new ground together with support from collaborators singer-songwriter Maya McGory and classically trained experimental violinist Zachary Paul, Chanel Beads has toured with headline shows in the UK and North America, opened for Lorde, Mount Kimbie and played Pitchfork Music Festival and SXSW. A self-observational project that offered an insightful philosophy into focusing only on what we can control, the album will receive its live Australian debut this June.