Chanel Beads — thisisgorilla.com

Raised in the suburbs of Minnesota, Lavers began making music under the name Chanel Beads
while living in Seattle back in 2016. When he wasn’t working at a library for the blind, he was
collaging synthetic sounds and real instruments into beguiling songs fundamentally averse to
genre. He was living in New York by 2022, as tracks like “Ef” and “True Altruism” captivated
certain online circles with their androgynous vocals, uncanny artifice, and stirring intimacy. In
the years since Chanel Beads’ entrancing introduction, the project has gone from playing house
shows and illegal abandoned train tunnel shows, all the way up to supporting Lorde on her
recent North American arena tour