Current Joys released his latest album East My Lovein 2024 via Secretly Canadian. 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 that featuredLil Yachty, Lala Lala, & Slow Hollows, 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.”
Walking around in the woods, playing the songs on acoustic guitar, Rattigan felt himself sink deeply into the rich, vast natural environment, a space in which he could access the base, almost childlike anger and pain he was contending with. When it came time to record the songs two years later, he worked with Andrew Sarlo, who was able to pull him back to the light while working on songs he had previously found too triggering to touch.
“East My Loveis an album I wrote at a low point, where I was struggling with a lot of mental health stuff,” shares Nick Rattigan. “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.”
Current Joys
Plus Special Guests
Thursday 27th August 2026
The Academy, Dublin
Doors 7pm | 14’s+
Tickets from €27.00 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie on sale Friday, 17th April @ 10am.
Bookings subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50)