The Alpine: Current Joys, Lala Lala (solo)

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Since 2013, Current Joys’ output has been prolific. Within six months of beginning the project, Current Joys had already released its debut, Wild Heart; by 2018, the sixth Current Joys full length and visual album, A Different Age, was out. Each piece of Current Joys’ early discography is wholly built and envisioned by Rattigan, self recorded and quickly released, quivering with a lonely intensity.

In his later works, Rattigan’s songwriting/recording approaches have continued to change and evolve. From Voyager with it’s bristling, sentimental rock ‘n’ roll cacophony overlaid with a soundtrack orchestra to LOVE + POP’s aggressive, deconstructed production, house music influence, and even a guest appearance from Lil Yachty. On his latest album, East My Love, Rattigan turns inward using country music and transcendental folk to quell his own personal struggles.

All the while, Current Joys’ profile quickly and quietly ascended, selling out tour after tour at venues like LA’s The Wiltern, Paris’ Trabendo and Sydney’s The Factory, simultaneously amassing over a billion combined streams and a dedicated following.

Current Joys is held together by the fervor of Rattigan’s creative process. He believes in the premonitory power of music, regardless of genre and he latches onto the song ideas that strike him in the moment, propelled by an abstract existentialism or burst of feeling more than anything else.

Support from Lala Lala (solo).

“I want total freedom, total possibility, total acceptance. I want to fall in love with the rock.

”That’s how Lillie West describes the theme of “DIVER,” the song she calls the thesis of Lala Lala’s third record, I Want The Door To Open. The rock in question is a reference to Sisyphus, the mythical figure doomed by the gods to forever push a boulder up from the depths of hell. To West, it is the perfect metaphor for “the labor of living, of figuring out who you are, what’s wrong with you, what’s right with you,” she says. “I think it’s easy to feel like we keep making the same mistakes over and over again, that we never learn, that we’re Sisyphus; but time is actually a spiral that we move up. The key is falling in love with the labor of walking up the mountain.”

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