Current Joys - East My Love

East My Love, the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by Current Joys, feels familiar. It’s meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive deep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love and trauma, heartbreak and spiritual renewal.

Cast with a warm glow and finding Current Joys’ Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most high-fidelity production to date, it’s the kind of album that listeners could see themselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they’re most in need of reassurance or escapism. For Rattigan, though, it’s all that and more. “East My Love is an album I wrote at a low point, where I was struggling with a lot of mental health stuff,” he says. “Writing it was like my comfort blanket. In all of the madness that was happening in my mind, I was trying to soothe my soul with country music and transcendental folk – messages to myself from a different place.”

Rattigan wrote East My Love alone in the woods in Tennessee, with no cell reception and nobody in earshot for miles. Composed three years before Love + Pop, the experimental pop double record he released in 2023 and 2024, the songs on East My Love felt too raw to confront until he felt well and truly out from underneath the cloud that had been cast over him.

Rattigan describes the songs as “landmines” that, for years, threatened to upend his carefully balanced mental state. “They were just triggers that would put me back in this emotional space, and I think eventually I got to a place where they were more comforting,” he recalls. “That’s what I hope people find out of the record – a solace from any anxieties or depressions.”

Available on limited olive coloured vinyl / black vinyl / CD & Cassette.

Tracklist:
[LP]
A1. Echoes of the Past
A2. California Rain
A3. Days of Heaven
A4. Never Seen a Rose
A5. Lullaby for the Lost
A6. Oh, Sister
B1. They Shoot Horses
B2. Tormenta
B3. Sister Christian
B4. East My Love
B5. Feelin' Groovy
[CD/CASSETTE] 
01. Echoes of the Past
02. California Rain
03. Days of Heaven
04. Never Seen a Rose
05. Lullaby for the Lost
06. Oh, Sister
07. They Shoot Horses
08. Slowly like the Wind
09. Tormenta
10. Sister Christian
11. East My Love
12. Feelin' Groovy