Ready For Heaven

Product Description

'Ready for Heaven' is Angel Deradoorian's fifth solo album and her first since 2020's 'Find the Sun'.

Angel was previously a member of Dirty Projectors and is in Decisive Pink (with electronic artist Kate NV). She has collaborated and recorded with the likes of Bjork, The Roots, Charli XCX, Vampire Weekend and Flying Lotus.

Deradoorian (Decisive Pink, Dirty Projectors) returns with 'Ready for Heaven', dealing with heaven and earth, damnation and salvation. It is a classic forty-minute set of inquisitive pop songs, blessed with a lightness of touch and a sharp focus that can't help but charm the listener. It conjures up some last, faint afterglow of the old belief that an electronic, programmed beat can smash itself - and you - into another, more egalitarian consciousness.

It is a remarkable fact that this bold and open-hearted record is made by one person, working alone. Repeatedly reworking the songs until they were complete is a painstaking process that generated an energy and space where Angel Deradoorian could indulge in the arcana of her artform.

"I love the production more than the songwriting. [...] In fact, I don't even feel like a songwriter at times, I feel like someone who is just inspired by so much music. And I want to try it all out! Like Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Mingus, or ESG and Silver Apples, or making weird krautrock and industrial music. I love dub, and Sly and Robbie. I love the productions of those records and the collective energies released by their creators in the studio. It's just a weird thing to do it by yourself!"