CD
Sunset Garden (2025) US
Lany have quietly cracked the mainstream on their own terms as one of the most ubiquitous, unpredictable, and undeniable bands of this era. Tallying billions of streams, selling out legendary arenas, and earning widespread critical acclaim, the platinum-certified Los Angeles group consistently deliver rafter-reaching anthems anchored by airtight songcraft and the outsized personality of enigmatic frontman and songwriter Paul Jason Klein. Lany release their brand new album Soft. Thematically and visually Soft exists in tension — an intentional contrast of the hard and soft. Tangible, literal, physical hardness juxtaposed with metaphorical, relational (and, at times too, physical) softness. Sonically, the album explores these same tensions — much of the softness and vulnerability of lyric that has defined Lany’s acclaimed career, now with a harder, braver edge to the production.