L’Rain announces new album I Killed Your Dog

Taja Cheek’s third full-length project as L’Rain is due out October 13 via Mexican Summer. Its second single, “Pet Rock,” is out today.

August 23, 2023
L’Rain announces new album <i>I Killed Your Dog</i> L’Rain. Photo by Alice Plati.  

Taja Cheek (L’Rain) has announced her third studio LP, I Killed Your Dog. The follow-up to Fatigue — The FADER’s 39th favorite album of 2021 — is due out October 13 via Mexican Summer, and its second single, “Pet Rock,” is out today.

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Like the project’s first offering, “New Years UnResolution,” the new song is a highly referential experiment in popular music, reaching back to the early aughts for sonic touchstones such as The Strokes, and further, to the dad rock bands Cheek never listened to as a child. Like much of her work, its blissed-out sound belies a sinister theme lurking just beneath its surface.

“The song is based around an old story I’d been told about a woman who was riding the train but looked strange, and the reader eventually figures out that she’s dead, with glasses on, being propped up by the people that seem to have harmed her,” Cheek explains. “As a lifelong collector of tchotchkes, the music video is based on a concept I came up with featuring miniatures.”

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Watch that video, directed by Studio Jojo, below. And scroll further to stream “Pet Rock” on its own, check out I Killed Your Dog’s cover art and tracklist, and view L’Rain’s upcoming live dates.

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I Killed Your Dog album art and tracklist
L’Rain announces new album <i>I Killed Your Dog</i>

1. Sincerity Commercial
2. Our Funeral
3. Pet Rock
4. I Hate My Best Friends
5. I Killed Your Dog
6. All The Days You Remember
7. 5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG)
8. Sometimes
9. r(EMOTE)
10. Uncertainty Principle
11. Oh Wow, a Bird!
12. Knead Bee
13. Monsoon of Regret
14. Clumsy
15. What’s That Song?
16. New Year’s UnResolution

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L’Rain fall 2023 tour
L’Rain announces new album <i>I Killed Your Dog</i>

October 20 - Pioneer Works - New York, NY
October 25 - Johnny Brenda’s - Philadelphia, PA
October 26 - Songbyrd - Washington, DC
November 29 - El Rey - Los Angeles, CA *
December 1 - Zebulon - Los Angeles, CA
December 2 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
December 5 - Polaris Hall - Portland, OR
December 6 - Madame Lou’s - Seattle, WA
Dec 7 - Fox Cabaret - Vancouver, BC

* with Cate Le Bon and Mega Bog

L’Rain announces new album I Killed Your Dog