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Chanel Beads and LEYA Reimagine “Corners” and Launch International Tours

  • April 8, 2025
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Chanel Beads and LEYA Reimagine “Corners” and Launch International Tours
Chanel Beads, LEYA, Corners Chanel Beads Rework, Your Day Will Come, I Forget Everything EP, new single, experimental pop, New York music, ambient pop, harp and violin, lo-fi sound collage, Jagjaguwar, NNA Tapes, avant-garde music, indie tours 2024, Primavera Sound, Wide Awake Festival, FIBER Festival, Ephemera Festival, Circuit des Yeux, Deli Girls, Vanessa Bedoret, music video, Mariah Morvant

Two of New York’s most compelling experimental acts, Chanel Beads and LEYA, join forces on a beautifully strange new single: “Corners – Chanel Beads Rework”, out now alongside a hazy, evocative music video starring model Mariah Morvant. The track, a reimagining of LEYA’s original from their 2024 I Forget Everything EP, sees Chanel Beads’ Shane Lavers weaving glitchy textures, ghostly violin from Zachary Paul, and shared vocals with collaborator Maya McGrory into a soundscape that feels suspended between dream and memory.

“This song is about that eerie space before and after a LEYA performance,” Lavers says. “That sense of anticipation, and the quiet reflection after something intense has happened.”

The rework bridges two distinct creative visions—LEYA’s haunting medieval dream-pop and Chanel Beads’ fractured art-pop collage—into something intimate, theatrical, and totally immersive. It’s an ideal teaser for both artists’ current touring and recent acclaimed releases.

Chanel Beads’ debut album Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar) has made waves for its lo-fi textures, intimate vocals, and poetic fragmentation of modern life, earning praise from Pitchfork, The FADER, and The Line of Best Fit. Meanwhile, LEYA’s I Forget Everything (NNA Tapes) continues their mission of dissolving genre boundaries with harp, violin, and voice—all bent into forms both ethereal and unsettling.

Both artists are currently on the road, with Chanel Beads playing festivals and headlining dates across Europe and the U.S., and LEYA launching an epic 40+ date tour across North America and Europe, with support from Circuit des Yeux, Deli Girls, Vanessa Bedoret, and more.

Chanel Beads Tour Dates

April 12 – Indieplaza – New York, NY

April 18 – 99 Scott – Brooklyn, NY

May 23 – Wide Awake Festival – Herne Hill, UK

May 24 – The White Hotel – Salford, UK

May 29 – Blechsonne Festival – Galenbeck, DE

May 31 – Maifeld Derby – Mannheim, DE

June 02 – Salon IKSV – Istanbul, TR

June 04 – Badaboum – Paris, FR

June 06 – Primavera Sound Festival – Barcelona, ES

June 07 – ZDB – Lisbon, PT

June 09 – Workman’s Club – Dublin, IR

LEYA Tour Dates

April 08 – Tubby’s – Kingston, NY

April 09 – Foufounes Électriques – Montréal, QC $

April 11 – Sound Garage – Toronto, ON $

April 12 – Outer Limits – Detroit, MI $

April 14 – Raccoon Motel – Davenport, IA

April 15 – The Cedar – Minneapolis, MN *

April 16 – Sugar Maple – Milwaukee, WI *

April 18 – Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH *

April 19 – Public Records – Brooklyn, NY *

April 20 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA *

April 21 – Gallery 5 – Richmond, VA

April 22 – DRKMTTR – Nashville, TN

April 24 – TAF – Tulsa, OK

April 26 – Zebulon – Los Angeles, CA *

April 27 – The Chapel – San Francisco, CA *

April 28 – The Miniplex – Arcata, CA *

April 30 – Holocene – Portland, OR *

May 01 – Sunset Tavern – Seattle, WA *

May 02 – Wild Child – Olympia, WA

May 03 – Realms – Boise, ID

May 04 – Art Castle – Salt Lake City, UT

May 05 – Hi-Dive – Denver, CO

May 07 – Constellation – Chicago, IL

May 08 – State Street – Indianapolis, IN

May 09 – Telephone – Pittsburgh, PA

May 16 – Elsewhere – Brooklyn, NY #

May 21 – Cafe OTO – London, UK ^

May 22 – Belgrave Music Hall – Leeds, UK ^

May 23 – The Flying Duck – Glasgow, UK ^

May 24 – Just Dropped In – Coventry, UK ^

May 25 – The Louisiana – Bristol, UK ^

May 27 – La Station – Paris, FR

May 28 – dunk!Festival – Ghent, BE

May 29 – FIBER Festival – Amsterdam, NL

May 30 – Museum Küppersmühle – Duisburg, DE

May 31 – TRAFO – Jena, DE

June 01 – 1000fryd – Aalborg, DK

June 02 – Silent Green – Berlin, DE

June 03 – Helsinki Club – Zurich, CH

June 04 – Le Sonic – Lyon, FR

June 05 – La Brèche – Lausanne, CH

June 07 – I.BOAT – Bordeaux, FR

June 08 – Le Cloître De La Psalette – Tours, FR

June 11 – Ephemera Festival – Warsaw, PL

$ with Deli Girls

• with Circuit des Yeux

with YHWH Nailgun, DJ E

^ with Vanessa Bedoret

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