Ready For Heaven
âReady for Heavenâ is Angel Deradoorianâs fifth solo album and her first since 2020âs âFind the Sunâ. Angel was previously a member of Dirty Projectors and is in Decisive Pink (with electronic artist Kate NV). She has collaborated and recorded with the likes of Bjork, The Roots, Charli XCX, Vampire Weekend and Flying Lotus. Previous Press support from Pitchfork, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Line Of Best Fit, All Music, PopMatters, The Irish Times, Clash, Exclaim, Post Trash, Spectrum Culture. For fans of: Jenny Hval, Jockstrap, St Vincent, Kate Bush, ESG, Broadcast, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Arthur Russell, The Knife, Talking Heads.
Deradoorian (Decisive Pink, Dirty Projectors) returns with âReady for Heavenâ, dealing with heaven and earth, damnation and salvation. It is a classic forty-minute set of inquisitive pop songs, blessed with a lightness of touch and a sharp focus that canât help but charm the listener. It conjures up some last, faint afterglow of the old belief that an electronic, programmed beat can smash itself - and you - into another, more egalitarian consciousness It is a remarkable fact that this bold and open-hearted record is made by one person, working alone. Repeatedly reworking the songs until they were complete is a painstaking process that generated an energy and space where Angel Deradoorian could indulge in the arcana of her artform. âI love the production more than the songwriting. [...] In fact, I donât even feel like a songwriter at times, I feel like someone who is just inspired by so much music. And I want to try it all out! Like Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Mingus, or ESG and Silver Apples, or making weird krautrock and industrial music. I love dub, and Sly and Robbie. I love the productions of those records and the collective energies released by their creators in the studio. Itâs just a weird thing to do it by yourself!â
Engaging with past musical glories helps deal with a major theme of this album; the awful nature of the world around us. Deradoorian: âThis album is partly about watching humanity erode. Itâs about mental struggle, and itâs avowedly anti-capitalist. I mean; would we have all these identity labels we have to live by, if we didnât live in a capitalist world?â A lot of the lyrical content deals with the struggle to be a human being in the modern world, and the determination to keep on keeping on. But even when a darker mood informs a track, as with âHell Islandâ or âDigital Gravestoneâ, there are arrangements that seduce and hooks that ensnare.
We are dealing with a world where there is too much chaos to cut through and where human connections are burnt dry. âReady for Heavenâ is an avowedly human response to the world we find ourselves in, and Deradoorian uses every ounce of her reserves of wit and knowledge to create a source of comfort and solace for the listener.
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âReady for Heavenâ is Angel Deradoorianâs fifth solo album and her first since 2020âs âFind the Sunâ. Angel was previously a member of Dirty Projectors and is in Decisive Pink (with electronic artist Kate NV). She has collaborated and recorded with the likes of Bjork, The Roots, Charli XCX, Vampire Weekend and Flying Lotus. Previous Press support from Pitchfork, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Line Of Best Fit, All Music, PopMatters, The Irish Times, Clash, Exclaim, Post Trash, Spectrum Culture. For fans of: Jenny Hval, Jockstrap, St Vincent, Kate Bush, ESG, Broadcast, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Arthur Russell, The Knife, Talking Heads.
Deradoorian (Decisive Pink, Dirty Projectors) returns with âReady for Heavenâ, dealing with heaven and earth, damnation and salvation. It is a classic forty-minute set of inquisitive pop songs, blessed with a lightness of touch and a sharp focus that canât help but charm the listener. It conjures up some last, faint afterglow of the old belief that an electronic, programmed beat can smash itself - and you - into another, more egalitarian consciousness It is a remarkable fact that this bold and open-hearted record is made by one person, working alone. Repeatedly reworking the songs until they were complete is a painstaking process that generated an energy and space where Angel Deradoorian could indulge in the arcana of her artform. âI love the production more than the songwriting. [...] In fact, I donât even feel like a songwriter at times, I feel like someone who is just inspired by so much music. And I want to try it all out! Like Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Mingus, or ESG and Silver Apples, or making weird krautrock and industrial music. I love dub, and Sly and Robbie. I love the productions of those records and the collective energies released by their creators in the studio. Itâs just a weird thing to do it by yourself!â
Engaging with past musical glories helps deal with a major theme of this album; the awful nature of the world around us. Deradoorian: âThis album is partly about watching humanity erode. Itâs about mental struggle, and itâs avowedly anti-capitalist. I mean; would we have all these identity labels we have to live by, if we didnât live in a capitalist world?â A lot of the lyrical content deals with the struggle to be a human being in the modern world, and the determination to keep on keeping on. But even when a darker mood informs a track, as with âHell Islandâ or âDigital Gravestoneâ, there are arrangements that seduce and hooks that ensnare.
We are dealing with a world where there is too much chaos to cut through and where human connections are burnt dry. âReady for Heavenâ is an avowedly human response to the world we find ourselves in, and Deradoorian uses every ounce of her reserves of wit and knowledge to create a source of comfort and solace for the listener.
