L’Rain

Brooklyn native Taja Cheek makes dreamy, genre-blurring music as L'Rain, reflecting on grief, change, joy, and resistance through a collage-like mixture of soul, psychedelia, gospel, musique concrète, and numerous other genres. First appearing in 2017 with a self-titled debut partially created in reaction to the passing of her mother, L'Rain returned in 2021 with Fatigue, a similarly experimental work exploring the emotional effects of personal and societal change. I Killed Your Dog, a slightly more direct album described as an "anti-break-up" record, was released in 2023. Her fourth album, the surreal and intoxicating Fata Morgana, appeared in 2026.