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Review: Brooklyn-based Rachika Nayer broke the mould with her startling 2021 debut, Our Hands Against the Dusk. She then proved that was no fluke with follow-up release, Fragments - more a collection of songs rather than an LP per se - and by 2022 had cemented herself as a darling of the chin-stroking music press with Heaven Come Crashing, a record that could not be more beautiful if it tried, but one which also manages to leave us feeling like something has had a huge impact on our lives. For the most part, Heaven is a blissful electronic album that pays homage to silent zeitgeists of nightlife culture - 6am walks through empty city streets with chosen family, moments of strange stillness, depth and quiet on a dance floor. But all that climaxes on the closing titular offering, which explodes into a symphony somewhere between DNTEL, Explosions In the Sky, and LTJ Bukem.