L’Rain is the musical project of multi-instrumentalist, composer, performer, and curator Taja Cheek. Growing up in Brooklyn, Cheek found her feet at the center of a vibrant DIY community in the first half of the 2010s, playing noise music and hosting concerts in her basement with the likes of Dreamcrusher and TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone. Fascinated by the collisions of hi- and lo-fi technology, she teased out crunched aesthetics from the equipment that was available to her, playing with home-spun recording approaches alongside professional techniques on her self-titled 2017 debut album L’Rain, which has been described as a form of “psychic collage.” Her second album Fatigue, released in 2021, was met by much acclaim, propelling L’Rain towards a new audience while cementing Cheek’s place within the experimental and more institutional art canon. Working alongside Andrew Lappin and Ben Chapoteau-Katz, her 2023 record I Killed Your Dog over-writes themes of grief and identity to consider what it means to hurt the people you love most.

At Pioneer Works on October 20, 2023, L’Rain performed "5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG)" from I Killed Your Dog.

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