Rachika Nayar wants to destroy you and put you back together
thefader.comThere are moments on Rachika Nayar’s new album Heaven Come Crashing when a light flickers on and the foundations of the Brooklyn-based composer and producer’s process begin to show: guitars loop and echo, strings bounce off of each other, melodies and motifs sprout and grow.
They recall Nayar’s debut, Our Hands Against The Dusk, which, ambitious and meticulously produced though it was, still sounded like the work of an artist whose main vehicle was the guitar.
That record even came with a companion EP, fragments (one of The FADER’s favorite albums of last year), which invited listeners into Nayar’s process, presenting raw guitar tracks that revealed Nayar’s love of Midwest emo as much as her skill in crafting transportive ambient music.Eventually, though, the light flickers off again, and the foundations are out of view.
Heaven Come Crashing — out today, August 26, via NNA Tapes — is an album as grand and obliterative as its title. It draws inspiration from slick electronic film soundtracks and trance clubs.
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