Deradoorian – Ready For Heaven
Artist : Deradoorian
Album : Ready For Heaven
Label : Fire Records
Link : https://www.firerecords.com/artists/deradoorian/
Style: Pop Rock, Alternative & Indie
Deradoorian, while keeping modern pop rock as her central inspiration, doesn’t hesitate to mix seemingly antagonistic styles on her fourth album, Ready For Heaven.
California-born Angel Deradoorian began learning the violin and piano at the age of five. As her interest in music grew, she decided to leave school to devote herself fully to her passion. She moved to Brooklyn and, after a few experiments, in 2007 joined the indie rock band Dirty Projectors, which she left five years later with a view to devoting herself to more personal projects. She then became close to Animal Collective and released her first solo album in 2015, in addition to making a name for herself as part of the duo Decisive Pink.
On her fourth album, Deradoorian maps out the styles that inspire her. We can see that she follows her desires without trying to stick to any particular label, and that’s what makes this record so original. Despite its diversity, the record acquires an overall tonality that becomes more and more evident the more you listen to it. Without shying away from a clearly arty approach, the tracks move from the New York post-punk of the ’80s to the repetitive side of krautrock, the precursors of the electronics that also make their presence felt here. A few jazzy, industrial or reggae touches round off the soundtrack.
Clearly, the artist loves the studio and production. The musical lines are superimposed, giving coherence to an assembly of modules whose cohabitation might have seemed incongruous elsewhere. The clear guitar at the beginning can saturate elsewhere, the saxophone can go from languorous ambiences to heart-rending flights of fancy, as can the rhythms, sometimes almost hypnotic and at other times more danceable. Interestingly, the varied timbres maintain a general sound tinged with torpor, in line with the tensions perceived by the musician within our society.