EAST MY LOVE

East My Love, the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by
Current Joys, feels familiar. It's meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive
deep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love
and trauma, heartbreak and spiritual renewal. Cast with a warm glow and
finding Current Joys' Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most
high-fidelity production to date, it's the kind of album that listeners could see
themselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they're most in need of
reassurance or escapism. For Rattigan, though, it's all that and more.
Rattigan wrote East My Love alone in the woods in Tennessee, with
no cell reception and nobody in earshot for miles. Composed three years
before Love + Pop, the experimental pop double record he released in 2023
and 2024, the songs on East My Love felt too raw to confront until he felt well
and truly out from underneath the cloud that had been cast over him.