Chanel Beads

Shane Lavers grew up in suburban Minnesota, where his parents listened mostly to country-pop and Karen Carpenter, and his older brother tended toward Southern rap and bands including Slipknot. He developed his own eclectic tastes on torrent sites, where he discovered everything from ambient music to the Beach Boys. After graduating from college in 2016, he followed a friend to Seattle, where he played basement shows while working a day job filling orders for books through the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. The job allowed him to listen to music for eight hours a day, and at one point, he considered getting a master’s in library science. After a couple years, his interest in music won out, and he began writing songs in earnest. Using the moniker Chanel Beads, he released the EP Zut Alors in mid-2018 while still mastering equipment and fashioning his sound. Chanel Beads landed a record deal with prestige indie label Jagjaguwar for the April 2024 release of the project’s full-length debut, Your Day Will Come.