{"product_id":"launder_happening_2022_mdl","title":"Happening","description":"After nearly three years and sixty demos, Launder's debut album, fittingly titled Happening, is finally here. In 2019, Orange County-raised, Los Angeles-based musician John Cudlip signed with Ghostly International for his project, which evolved from casual sessions with friends Jackson Phillips (Day Wave), Soko, and Zachary Cole Smith (DIIV). With live shows suspended in 2020, he dove headfirst into writing and arranging a surplus of ideas. John also embraced sobriety, redirecting his once-destructive addictive tendencies into studio work. All his thoughts were absorbed by melodies and textures, all his resources engulfed by musical equipment. Every hum, hiss, and rustle on this record was all that mattered to him. The resulting collection is a massive, thoughtful debut album he is proud of. Across its thirteen songs, Happening is timeless. Both cathartic and tender, it tackles something greater than simple melody. It borrows from great indie rock artists while being illuminated by modern, careful introspection. To record the album, John Cudlip and his collaborators—including Chase Meier (bass), Bryan DeLeon (drums), Nathan Hawelu (lead guitar)—joined co-producer, engineer, and mixer Sonny DiPerri (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, DIIV) at New Monkey Studio, the analog\/digital recording studio in Van Nuys, California, which once belonged to Elliott Smith. John meticulously crafted his dream setup: he used alternative tunings on a fleet of Fenders to accommodate his left-handed playing, experimented with different amps (a late '70s Marshall JMP carried much of the sound), and fine-tuned vocals on Elliott Smith's old Neumann U48 microphone and Fairchild compressor. It's evident to the band that something magnetic shaped this record. While debuts are often filled with raw potential, Launder has crafted a perfectly refined collection that unfolds in the moment. Somewhere at the intersection of '90s lo-fi and shoegaze, Happening is the sound of a songwriter pushing his limits with thrilling, intoxicating results.","brand":"Launder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55311974039896,"sku":null,"price":20220715.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0804297839318.jpg?v=1760407326","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/launder_happening_2022_mdl","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}