Glasser: the newest LA diva

http://imyouare.com/files/images/glasser_timothy_murray.jpg

Anyone heard this bedroom diva? Girl's got pipes I tell ya.

I've heard that she is just finishing an album produced by The Subliminal Kid and Van Rivers, aka the very dudes who produced Fever Ray.

She just got through touring the UK with the xx. Anyone get a chance to see her?

I don't know when her album will be released, probably in the late summer/ fall. the Apply EP is a sweet teaser, but it's mostly songs that have been on her myspace page for a while.

http://www.myspace.com/glasssser

Anyway I'm psyched. Who's with me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjY_tzLSW4o

Love this stuff. This and Walls and Gayngs are my late at night, no one else is in the building music.

Look who's on the cover of FADER this month!

http://www.thefader.com/category/magazine/

http://www.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/F69_covers_both1.jpg

Not surprised. The Fader has been pushing her hard since day one.

surprised i didn't post on this the first time round, been jamming "tremel" most of the summer (and the astronomer remix as well), and the album's pretty fab. should be right up ilm's street, i would have thought.

Ooh, I like the YouTube posted above. Yes, this seems like it's relevant to my interests.

Her voice (especially on the remixes) sounds *so* much like the girl who sings on the Flight Facilities single.

I've heard that she is just finishing an album produced by The Subliminal Kid and Van Rivers

I think they did the new Blonde Redhead album as well.

saw her/them opening for Delorian. Pretty good songs and beats. Dancing needs some work.

been jamming "tremel" most of the summer (and the astronomer remix as well)

gr8 drums on this remix

I like this!

Yeah, that Astronomer remix is amazing!

(The Astronomer is one of the Erol forum kids but I can never remember which one. Good stuff, though.)

I love both Tremel and Apply, especially the drums on the latter. When is the album out?

Ring by Glasser TRUE-025 - Release Date: 28 Sep 2010

http://www.truepanther.com/store/releases/ring

She's playing a record release show at amoeba in LA on the 24th of September.

I will go to that Amoeba show

Have been listening to the EP and it's good!

The album is terrific.

Oh shit, it's up on Spotify.

Totally a headphones record by the way, it sounds huge.

Liking this a lot. Voice is a bit Angel Deradoorian imo.

headphones record, absolutely. love "mirrorage" especially. matt she's playing a london gig on fri, you should come.

I think I liked 'T' best on first listen, that one song would fit nicely next to Zola Jesus, it's got that same sombre goth vibe.

lex where's she playing on friday?

Argh sadly I have plans for Friday, bet she's great live.

There's a couple of London appearances on different dates listed on her myspace, one being an instore, and free tickets available for the other one.

http://www.myspace.com/glasssser

Date for Friday is listed as:

1 October 2010
Alfred University, Alfred

Apparently that is a real place.

i think the friday date is @ the macbeth in sditch??

Lex, it looks like that is happening on 11-Oct not 1-Oct. Free tickets via that myspace link btw.

damn monday is not as fun as a friday but i will still be there

This record is absolutely stellar. Reminds me a lot of last year's Bat for Lashes, what with its big melodies and tribal rhythms. Its creative flourishes are really quite amazing. There's all sorts of details to be heard in the production.

Album is great!

this album is lovely and totally harmonizing with the change of seasons here

MIRRORAGE

Thread title is way misleading seeing as I can't imagine many albums sounding less LA. It's either big tribal drums or icy soundscapes or English folk melodies, or all three.

If only we knew of a mod who was able to edit it.

just want to make sure all glasser lovers have heard this remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA9qTtLQJ1U

digging that a lot, thanks!

getting a sinead-goes-to-ibiza vibe off "tremel"

she was really great live last night, this album just keeps on growing on me.

yea she was awesome, amazing voice

ah you were there too. i really liked her stage presence, she looked really relaxed (and i liked her dancing! kind of want to go raving w/her).

also, i bitched about this on the show etiquette thread already, but shoreditch really needs to learn some manners imo.

otfm couldnt believe how rude everyone was, the ppl standing next to my gf + i were total fuckwits.

and when she did that quiet song + pretty much everyone talked right through? i mean jesus

Discovered her album at the weekend, like it a lot - and "Mirrorage" is my favourite too. Ooh-waa's and gamelans, lovely.

I was hanging out in Dell's apt the other week and he was playing Glasser and I asked why he was listening to Enya :/ but now I feel bad coz what I've heard is very very good. I wish I had more money to buy new albums right now.

That's an awesome story.

So sorry I missed the London show, but I was so ill. :-(

The album floats off a bit too far into the ether occasionally, but when it hits things like Mirrorage and Tremel... just wow. I love the combination of this quite restrained music with these utterly fantastically baroque vocal arrangements.

Weird, though, I got this album at the same time as The Hundred In The Hands and because the singers' voices have quite similar tonal ranges, I seem to have just combined the two in my head into one super-album with two distinct moods.

obsessed with this album now, and the 'mirrorage' video is WOW

I was hanging out in Dell's apt the other week and he was playing Glasser and I asked why he was listening to Enya :/ but now I feel bad coz what I've heard is very very good. I wish I had more money to buy new albums right now.

saw her at the troubadour last night and she was so so good <333333

she did basically the entire album (inc. "clamour" which she says she's never played live before, and her unplanned encore was this short but beautiful a cappella). kind of amazing stage presence + dance moves

I am halfway through the second listen of this album; what a beauty! I also totally cannot tell if Abbott was being facetious upthread.

I've been previewing this album, too, and while it's not all gold when she's got it SHE'S GOT IT! Love the odd rhythms and instrumentation, and her voice is great, not too much to take. I echo the Bat For Lashes comparison but while that didn't grab me, Glasser's organic feel and wide open spaces are pulling me in. Her pedigree is amazing (daughter on a Blue Man Group father and Human Sexual Response mother) so you can imagine the kind of music she grew up listening to.

daughter on a Blue Man Group father and Human Sexual Response mother

Images in brain...

i think the key diff between b4l and glasser for me is that when i listen to b4l, i can tell what she's trying to do - i can tell what and who she likes, i can see where the sounds she makes stem from. it's all rather...if not obvious, then certainly laid out in plain sight. it's comfortingly familiar signifiers of mystique rather than genuine mystery. with glasser, it's just, like, holy shit, where did some of these ideas come from? there's so much in those arrangements and beats, but they don't seem to specifically draw on anything else.

i am always at a loss to describe how this album sounds to other people

Lex - very well said, and for me when it's all laid out, I find it derivative as opposed to innovative, or at least surprising, which Glasser most certainly is. And it's wonderful to still be surprised by music!

holy shit, listening to "Mirrorage" on Myspace right now and this is amazing

"mirrorage" is seriously next-level - from 2:20 to 2:42 my jaw drops every time at the way everything comes together

Just got this yesterday but i'm loving it. What else is worth tracking down that isn't on the album? I see a 3 song tour EP, a couple bonus tracks from iTunes or somewhere and a few singles. Besides the remixes, are there any originals worth tracking down not on Ring?

holy crap this is gorgeous

suits this wintry apocalypse well

and yeah, mirrorage: come the fuck on

Right???

hell yes

Proud of this gal

"Auerglass, 2009

The Auerglass is a two person pump organ created by Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow. The instrument cannot be played alone. Each player has a keyboard with alternating notes of a four octave scale. Each player must pump to supply the wind to the other player's notes."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFvdKk6u3Ao

(performance at deitch last year)

damn that's cool

with glasser, it's just, like, holy shit, where did some of these ideas come from? there's so much in those arrangements and beats, but they don't seem to specifically draw on anything else.

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not denying this, but i do think that the knife are pretty prominent in glasser's sound

I like Glasser, and that clip of the Auerglass, but I couldn't help thinking of this (around the 1:55 mark) throughout:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhw1ufT04fY

hah, i almost posted that auerglass clip here the other night

really liking the Jamie XX remix of 'Tremel': http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/14/stream-glasser-tremel-jamie-xx-remix/

So this is really good.

yep. setting aside the songwriting, it just sounds great, too.

And O_O at that Fader photo upthread...she's beautiful.

Okay I've listened to this basically all evening, and I'm pretty certain it's the best thing I've heard all year. Way to go finding your AOTY with two weeks left..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/06/new-band-glasser

"Her two biggest loves are apparently Jim Henson and prog rock"

Okay, I need to marry this woman.

Yes, love this album!! =D

yep. setting aside the songwriting, it just sounds great, too.

OTM, there's this kind of huge swell to every track, the vocals sound massive at all times.

i was listening to the lp version of "Apply" last night, and i almost lost it. so fucking good

also, lol at that guardian piece namechecking enya--- it's like they've been reading stevie d.'s posts here!

yeah "Apply" is probably my favorite song on this, besides "Treasury of We" and maybe "T" - I love how rich it all sounds, it's just overflowing with ideas and instrumentation and gorgeous melodies. It's "opulent" in the true sense of the word, like.. you don't have to have strings and pianos and shit to sound opulent

yeah, i would love to hear "Apply" really loud on a good sound system

okay I am officially really into this

whew, glad other people dig 'apply' as much as me. those fucking drums!!

I am thrilled to have found something that feel genuinely different, or at least a path far less taken, than most indie rock that gets hyped up these days. Huzzah! Tour?

This is so great

I can't figure out just what it is, but I'm having a hard time truly loving this. Songs like "Apply" and "Treasury of We" do sound so wonderful, but I'm having a hard time finding something in this record that I'm not liking better on either of the two Bat For Lashes or the Warpaint album.

seems like Bjork is the big ref point - altho she seems to have excised a fair amount of Bjork's inscrutability/harshness

hmmm apparently I should check out Warpaint then...?

I will say that I like Glasser's voice a LOT more than I like Natasha Khan's, and NK is pretty damn good.

also "Mirrorage" is basically an audio orgasm

Glasser doesn't really sound anything like Warpaint, not sure why that comparison was made. Actually if you like the Glasser album the next 2010 release you should be going for is probably the School of Seven Bells album.

No, they don't sound exactly alike, but there are quite a few shared traits - the stark minimalism to some of the tracks, the gorgeous vocal melodies, I don't think its THAT much of a ridiculous comparison.

yeah there really is zero (0) reason for me not to own So7B already

Dan, have you listened to any Zola Jesus yet? It's got the minimal electronic thing going and a big voice over the top, but quite a bit more gothy than Glasser or BFL in tone. Overall the last album is kind of a drag imo, but she's got at least three songs on there that are total winners (Night, I Can't Stand, Sea Talk).

I've see the name tossed around but haven't knowingly heard; possibly as a random song on Pandora...?

i'm not really into ZJ, but it seems like she might be tailor-made for DJP

what's a good school of seven bells song? all i know of them is that they're on ghostly and that shigeto (beatmaker dude) plays drums for them live.

Glasser doesn't really sound anything like Warpaint, not sure why that comparison was made. Actually if you like the Glasser album the next 2010 release you should be going for is probably the School of Seven Bells album.

I know ilm can't stop giving SoVIIB critical handjobs and all, but people who like this type of stuff might also like Warpaint, thats all I'm trying to say!

btw "Night" by Zola Jesus is definitely making me want to investigate more

altho the youtube comment "Florence Welch meets Siouxsie Sioux!" is a little terrifying

like how much stridency can you hear before your head implodes?

Yeah, she's a pretty good fit for the 'LA diva' title.

Not to imply earlier that I don't like School of Seven Bells (its better than Glasser, but not as good as Warpaint imho), its just that I was trying to reference a band that I don't think has been getting quite as much love on ilm.

Warpaint's singer fits very well into the B4L/Glasser vibe so I get why they were mentioned

def. the least interesting of the artists listed so far but by no means bad

okay it's totally ludicrous that I don't have this So7B album

hmm, Bat For Lashes is one of those bands with a name so awful I avoid them. Think i'll just be content waiting for the next Glasser album. Clearly The Knife is the only comparison that matters.

okay so now we're just listing every female-fronted group we know

"You know what this Glasser album reminds me of? Lita Ford."

I was just going to recommend that people digging Glasser would really love Christian Mistress.

All along B4L meets the Fever Ray album has been the most obv correct reference point, why are people complicating things.

I wouldn't list The Knife/Fever Ray at all; it's Bat For Lashes sensibility expressed by an American. You've got similar sound palettes, similar tempos, similar voices... there's no real need to bring anyone else into the picture.

I don't know why I put off listening to this all year because I played it for the first time today and it is amazing. She has an amazing sense of how to harmonise with her own voice and use it to effect, and it sounded perfect on headphones walking on crunchy snow. Reminds me a lot of Planningtorock in many ways too but with a lot more space, menace and earthiness.

I don't this this album is quite as good as my excitable posting earlier made out, but it's still pretty wonderful. Can she get even better? We'll see..

so I'm the only person hearing Bjork in here? huh

I completely hear Bjork, now that you mention it. It's like Volta if that album was any good..

i stand by my sinead comparison from earlier

sort of like Nancy Sinatra on acid, right?

not really?

Fever Ray/The Knife totally off the money - Glasser very rarely treats her voice in the same way as Karin (Mirrorage aside) and the sonics are much more open and sonorous than Fever Ray in particular, which is quite claustrophobic. Also I rarely get the sense from listening to Glasser that she's coming at her music from a techno or house background, even when the music is purely electronic.

Bjork I hear totally, mostly the widescreen symphonic iciness of the sound and also the way her voice can fill the entire space available, the sound is huge even when she's just backed up with a xylophone and a couple of drums. But none of the comparisons really hit home with me - she's her own person and I think and hope she'll make even better records than this.

I think that you can hear the similarities in production to Fever Ray, the way the sounds often seem to hover on the edge between organic and electronic - whereas the arrangements are more B4L. The songwriting is different again.

Both Fever Ray and Glasser make me want to bust out the word "elemental".

Bjork has always struck me as much more humanist but then I never bothered to listen to her last two albums much.

OTM, although I would really assert the Knife/Fever Ray comparison; they have the same producer (I think) and the nuances in their respective productions may contrast, but it's still has this (very reductive description) of a bold, but witchy lady singing these little songs over dark-tinged electronic music. Compare the twisting layers of harmonies, xylophones and other percussion to some of the denser tracks on Fever Ray eg Concrete Walls, Coconut.

She's playing in Ldn in February...I've curbed my gig attendance over the past two years, but I'm tempted. Maybe I'll try to chat after the show, Marnie Stern style ;)

Gah curse my slow posting style, but good points everyone.

xp Volta is worth hearing as a fan and admirer, but I really really rate Medulla as an incredible work. Mind-goggling vocal arrangements! Some of her most beautiful music.

Checking out School Of Seven Bells on Myspace... Glasser has a MUCH more interesting sound across the board, especially the rhythms. SO7B's is fine but feels overly familiar to me whereas Glasser seems out of nowhere.

nancy sinatra comment was a joke, shakey.

oh good

but yeah I don't get the "this sounds like NOTHING ELSE" sorta comments here. this sounds like a lot of stuff! Especially Bjork! good album.

I guess it's more like "nothing else I'm overly familiar with", which means I'll have to revisit Bjork's solo albums.

didn't mean to single you out, yr hardly the only one

"learn" on the 'apply' ep actually makes the best case for the bjork comparisons i think - the rattling drum loop and the HO HA HO HA HO HA HO HA parts seem like pages from her book (in a good way)

i agree with matt - don't hear fever ray in here at all, and in fact would be tempted to say that glasser is the opposite of fever ray (within the same basic female-electronica field obv). i don't think FR's production is nearly as balanced between organic/electronic as tim says - the organic elements are far more decorative, and the claustrophobic dronier electronics are way more dominant

björk makes more sense, but is also kinda vague given how difficult it is to pin down what björk as a comparison point actually means...sonically, not much, given that björk's gone through so many production styles in her career. vocally, not really - glasser seems way more controlled and formal, even when she's doing the wordless chanting.

b4l, maybe, but b4l's music leaves so little impression on me that i can't say anything specific about it. though i don't remember ever being as surprised by anything on a b4l record as i was on virtually every glasser track though.

Hah, if you asked me to think of one track from the entire history of pop music that the word "elemental" made me think of, it would almost certainly be 'Batchelorette'.

goes without saying that glasser's similarities to B4L don't prevent her from being incomparably better on pretty much every level.

"Bachelorette" is oddly dehumanised for a Bjork song I reckon (particularly odd given how melodramatic it is) - you could probably construct a Bjork playlist that cleaves pretty closely to Glasser actually, but it would of course offer a very skewed take on Bjork.

Actually if you just whacked on most of Homogenic and Vespertine (except maybe Pluto and Alarm Call) you wouldn't be too far off.

But... so much of Vespertine in particular is so intimate and emotional, could you imagine Glasser singing a song like "Cocoon" or "Pagan Poetry"?

Those non-intimate (not a diss) aspects of Glasser that make me think of Happy Rhodes, though obviously she's less corny.

Rhythmwise, "Apply" actually reminds me of Cibo Matto ("Apple")

i'm not really into ZJ, but it seems like she might be tailor-made for DJP

i'd like to echo this ^^

dan if you've not heard "sea talk" yet, you need to get on that song. siouxsie meets fever ray in the best way possible.

picked up glasser yesterday, btw, & it's fantastic

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/5302381970_8d034a985a.jpg

fell immediately in love with this when i heard it a month or so back, but wondered whether it'd hold up to repeated listening. it seems more an album of sustained moods than of indelible pop moments, and moods sometimes wear thin (as does pop's buzz, so six of one). i've been spinning it pretty heavily ever since, and i haven't tired yet. love the interaction of an earthy, organic sound palette with compositions you might expect to hear presented as wholly electronic pop. love even more that there's something distinct to discover and love about every song, some unfolding immediately, others taking their time.

this album is great, probably the thing i've played most this last week of 2010

the forbidden saxophone! gutsy.

Did this get talked about somewhere else?

"Mirrorage (Lindstrøm Remix)"
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12082-mirrorage-lindstrm-remix/

nwfeiowfeiowfeofehionioqwdioqwdqwqwDN

Actually 6music played a remix of Mirrorage yesterday that sounded pretty great, that's probably this.

wtf is breihan on about?

lol i cant listen to the remix at work but is his review rong or something

"It's a rare case of a remixer understanding the strengths of an original track, then doing what he can to augment those strengths rather than leave his own sonic fingerprints everywhere."

yeah he didn't really add anything to it. you're better off listening to the original

p much

mirrorage is a great song tho!

yeah what dayo said, it doesn't really add anything to the og

ugh p4k writers are the worst

this isnt something getting some sort of release is it? sounds like an edit so he can play it in a set and not like "a remix"

i guess glasser and lindsthttp://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leftkrHJkw1qf8yek.gif *sound* like its gonna be infinite bonertime tho so

oh come on

it's been released as a single plax

lindstrom

lindstrom *sound*

lindstrom do *sound*

idk what i did

yeah what dayo said, it doesn't really add anything to the og

Listen to it on headphones, loud. It's incredible. He takes the best bit of the song (the vocoders 'MIRRORAGE' bit and the detuned bell clanging noises behind it) and just ramps it up and makes it sound huge.

It also raises the enticing prospect that Lindstrom might be as good at making cold, dark machine music as he is at making sunny, kaleidoscopic disco.

I am listening to it on headphones! I actually hate how he takes the detuned bell clanging and sprinkles it liberally throughout the track. the detuned bell clanging was sort of the best part about the original because it only appears for a minute in the middle, there's a sense of anticipation and fulfillment when it comes in. now it's everywhere. dessert is good but not for every meal.

otm

and normally the thing i like most abt remixes is how they can stretch and distend but the thing i like abt mirrorage is that its kindof weirdly structured

ugh p4k writers are the worst

lol, has dude never heard an extended mix from the 80s, because that is basically what this is

mind you it is awesome but the hyperbole is silly

the most effective addition is the backwards vocal line IMO

Just in from seeing her perform in Glasgow and fuck me it was excellent - the acapella encore was brilliant, I don't think I've ever seen anyone dare attempt anything similar, never mind get away with it with barely a peep from the audience. She's got a wonderful set of pipes, a fantastically produced record and stunning good looks - I really don't get why she hasn't ended up in the same elevated "massive in indie" cult status as Fever Ray.

Finally heard the album -- seriously lovely music.

It really is.

I really don't get why she hasn't ended up in the same elevated "massive in indie" cult status as Fever Ray

The Fever Ray album wouldn't have had that status if it had just come out of nowhere though, Karin's background in The Knife obviously helped.

Going to see Glasser in London tomorrow, massively excited about this.

I forgot I had tickets for tomorrow. I hope I can go now.

she's my wife, she doesn't know it yet, but i know she'll be really pleased when prop 8 gets overturned

xxxpost I would like to imagine in an ideal world that the plaudits bestowed on Fever Ray were entirely meritous and not just a hype product and therefore Glasser could receive the same acclaim. I do know better though...

the acapella encore was brilliant, I don't think I've ever seen anyone dare attempt anything similar, never mind get away with it with barely a peep from the audience

haha cf my posts upthread re: seeing her in october, when the rude cunts in the audience talked over her, acapella or not, for the whole gig - hopefully tomorrow will not be like this!

i think more people just checked out fever ray - disparity in plaudits isn't because people like glasser less, it's cuz less people bothered to hear her. that sucks, yeah, and i blame them entirely for being lazy and sheeplike (this is also why i've been doing an irl kmt every time someone's tweeted about radiohead this week)

i dont get the glasser/fever ray comparisons aside from, say, electronic pop music w/ female vox? but the vibe is totally different—fever ray's pretty much a direct descendent of the siouxsie school of thought, very GOTH, and glasser's like looking thru a kaleidoscope at age 9 and going HOLY SHIT all these changing shapes and colors, this is BEAUTIFUL

Maybe it was just her outfit last night but I realised who she reminds me of in many ways - Roisin Murphy, "Ruby Blue" era.

I might go tomorrow if I can finish an essay tonight..

There'll be tickets on the door, right?

I also think this didn't receive the hype of Fever Ray because it's just not as good! Or not as distinctive, perhaps.

okay so apparently glasser did a song in 2009 that sounds like evanescence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQGeSvAqJpg

thankfully she handed over production duties to Van Rivers & the Subliminal Kid..

Holy heck!

how much are we betting DJP will still like this?

lyrics transcribed

Oh won't you save me
While we part

I believe that you could rule the world
Swinging a scepter through time
Though the heads of the dark lords will be yours
You would glow forever more
You would glow forever more
You glow

Oh won't you save me
Oh won't you die beside my heart
Oh won't you save me
Why are we apart?

You come to me with frankincense and myrrh
Haunting my dreams through the night
Like the king of passion and the earth
Your eyes are the end of the world
Your eyes are the end of the world
Your eyes are the end of the world

Oh won't you save me
Oh won't you die beside my heart
Oh won't you save me
Why are we apart?

Oh won't you save me
Oh won't you die beside my heart
Oh won't you save me
Why are we apart?

artists take time to develop shockah

Tremel was fucking huge tonight. No encore, but she played 'T' pretty quietly midway through the set.

Just found out Cameron Mesirow made this album with Apple's GarageBand. That is quite impressive.

i don't think that's true...thought she wrote it on garageband, and maybe some of those parts made to the record, but definitely not the whole thing.

I've heard a couple times that most to nearly all of it was done on garageband. Not sure if that was just something that bloggers have run away with or what though.

"it was all produced in garageband" sounds like exactly the kind of myth easily perpetua-ted by hopeful macbook toting indie bloggers

it could have used gband sounds and been sequenced in it but then mastered/mixed more professionally. i could believe it. none of the sounds themselves are that complex or 'expensive' sounding; it's more their juxtaposition and the underlying compositional strength that makes the record, plus her voice obv.

the early incarnations of the 'ring' tracks i've heard sound like they could've made on GB

looked up some interviews, apparently it was in fact done in garageband and then she had other musicians do live instrument overdubs.

not surprising really. spending time and care on something usually outweighs having expensive equipment. 'isn't anything' was recorded on a practice amp i believe.

^^^yes

also this was definitely professionall mixed and mastered wtf people r dum. It's entirely plausible/likely that various elements were tracked using gband but gtfo

professionallY

I don't think anyone claimed it was mastered on garageband.

i have no doubt that you can come up with something professional-sounding using garageband, but it sounds like she used a fair amount of factory samples and presets (instead of sampling or recording her own drums, for ex.). not a big deal, it's obviously put together well, but i personally find that a little lame.

apparently garageband has some dope timbal samples (or at least that's what it sounds like to me on "apply", i guess it could be djembe)

how the fuck you do even export individual tracks from garageband that aren't compressed AAC or MP3s? I haven't figured it out (in the one hour I spent with it).

I like this album but it's kind of safe sounding to me, so it's entirely plausible that lots of it was done with presets, the tones and sounds themselves don't strike me as incredibly special and lots of it just kind of washes past me in a pretty gauze. I kind of had the same reaction to the first School of Seven Bells record: generally really nice but kidn of sounds generic to me (their second one doesn't).

such a different gig experience to last time - crowd completely different, so much bigger and more reverent - too reverent, really; they shut up for the quiet songs but just WOULD NOT MOVE let alone dance to the ravier ones. fucking zombies! what is WRONG with people. and that's before we get into the problem of tall people who just stand right in front of people half their height. those need beheading.

glasser herself was pretty awesome, though i thought the vox were mixed too low? xoyo doesn't strike me as the best venue. she wore a weird edwardian ballgown (had a wardrobe malfunction halfway through) and a completely bizarre hat that was half felt helmet, half japanese fan with actual tassels that looked like o_0

and "mirrorage" is still the best thing ever

Sounds great - would've loved to have seen her.

oh yeah and she did that incredible acapella of something that sounded like an english folk song as her encore

i consciously tried to remember the lyrics to google but 'klvmdslks;hvh;dsh;oe;ohido;hie forgotten

That...says it all.

something something carelessly, is all i remember

theres like an early version of one of the songs that was recorded in garageband that appeared on some comp i think idk im tired

The ravier ones are not actually that ravey! It sort of didn't occur to me to dance, except during Tremel which was banging.

Amazing voice - the stripped down T and the acapalla folk song she did as an encore were incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7tVq59tIs

Looks like she's been doing 'Let No Man Steal Your Thyme' as an encore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghhijp9LbDY

I guess the Pentangle version is the most famous one, but the Shelagh McDonald one is probably my favourite.

so, I've been going back through assorted Bat For Lashes tracks and I still maintain there is a good amount of similarity between B4L and Glasser

G is rather obviously a stronger singer and much more into sound density but the whole argument of "B4L is so pedestrian" doesn't really stand up in the face of songs like "Horse and I," "Glass" and "Two Planets"

"Glass" roolz

http://soundcloud.com/youngturks/john-talabot-families-ft

featuring on the new single from john talabot!!!!!!!!!!! omg, etc

Wau, that's a dream team.

WHOA YES

Yep, that's a summer jam

ahhhhh this is so good

This is brilliant! I love that between this, the earlier John Talabot remix and the Lindstrom "remix" of Mirrorage, she's totally becoming a spaced-out-house disco diva, it really works for her. Much as I love Ring (and Van Rivers/Subliminal Kid), I would not be disappointed if the follow-up saw her rope in guys like these to help instead.

Very good indeed, puts me in mind of 1992/1993 for some reason, though I can't say if that's because of sound or of mood...

This is great! And boxedjoy OTM, that would be a cool direction for her to take.

this is nice but not i prefer the ring style

not

The backing claps are straight out of the 80s, and the synth reminds me of... Japan? No, some other new wave touch point I can't put my finger on. I must co-sign with Jordon, though. "Ring" sounded unfamiliar whereas this sounds pleasantly familiar. I prefer unfamiliar these days.

I meant more that I'd rather hear her do a spaced-out-house disco diva album than simply do another album that sounded essentially like Ring. But even if she did, I'm sure that would be great too, she is very talented. And going by that crazy organ thing upthread, I'm sure she is capable of doing something totally unpredictable.

This is fantastic, can't get it off repeat

I've been enjoying this ALOT this morning...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdenGE3_RM4

I like that but I'm not hearing Glasser's presence massively on it?

Been listening to this Talabot track so much. This reminds me of "Coma Cat"

I could listen to "Mirrorage" all day

Was late to get into this, but love her.

Having really dug this and Fever Ray, I sought out stuff by producers-of-both, Van River & the Subliminal Kid. And their own stuff is really dull!

Hopefully not annoying, but I'll throw the Niki & The Dove name out there again (riyl Glasser/Fever Ray/etc.)

Sister Crayon also really good in a similar style (although even closer to the Bat for Lashes end of the scale)

btw my last post in this thread is OTM

How do we feel about this "Mirrorage" remix (particularly donna rouge)?

http://www.soundcloud.com/nycpartyinfo/mirrorage-glasser-nycpartyinfo

Have you all heard this Chad Valley f/ Glasser song? Video is pretty terrible unless you always dreamed of a younger Joss Whedon singing to you, but the song is pretty great. I'd file it alongside the new Solange, Sky Ferreira, etc, but dude is belting it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT2l5bo0Z9E

i can not get w/that guy
i wish there was a new glasser record
now would be a really nice time to have a new glasser record
all frosty & clean-cut

she's in the studio now!

https://twitter.com/truepanther/status/364881664628899840

OH MY GOD FIIIIIINALLY

THIS IS ALREADY THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jJhAuEYk3ms

this is siiiiick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJhAuEYk3ms

feel like ilx user DJP would enjoy this song

EXCELLENT.

Weird though how for micro-seconds she sounds disarmingly like Bjork here, given their voices as a whole are quite different.

yeah

Nice.

schlump OTM

This sounds fine but much less unique and organic than anything on Ring; it sounds like she's working from someone else's template. Also where is her voice?? It's just kind of there but it's not really doing anything

this song has its own weird pace

concentrating on her vocal melody is arresting

It's making me v concerned that her debut was a fluke instead of the foundation for a really rich career

I don't think her debut was that singular/original an artistic statement; the thing I got out of it was that it was startlingly mature composition- and presentation-wise.

this song is better still some days later; like she is somehow achieving that same weird space the first record created in a totally different way. something about the patience in her voice, its grace & bend.

also the record is somehow listenable, online, now, I cannot get at it, has anybody heard it, does anybody have opinions

Looking forward to it: http://thequietus.com/articles/13211-glasser-announces-new-album-interiors

EXCELLENT.

Weird though how for micro-seconds she sounds disarmingly like Bjork here, given their voices as a whole are quite different.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:35 (1 week ago) Permalink

Yeah, I'm glad someone brought this up. Their voices are not similar, but the phrasing / cadence and the lyric in relation to this kind of production as a total package really strongly evokes Bjork.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOVY0KDEzqw

mmmm, this one isn't leaving much of an impression on me after a couple of listens? feels a bit uninterestingly disjointed.

Almost sounds like a female-fronted Japan, but there's some other connection I can't put my finger on.

Video is making me think of Roisin Murphy a lot. I think I prefer this track to Shape, and I'm really appreciating how this new album is shaping up to be quite different to the debut.

I like that! Not an especially great song, but I do love the sound of it. Japan is a good call, it's got a similar dislocated funk feel along with the chime-like synth sounds.

i like the song much more than the previous one, but smh at her talent-show/stripper moves in the video.

Music videos are always kind of awful, except for maybe that Haim one that all the guys on here were whining about

I got it - the repetitive backing synth brings to mind Tangerine Dream's Risky Business soundtrack.

Oh I am feeling this track sooooo much more than the last one!! This has the magic of Ring imo

but there's some other connection I can't put my finger on.

There's a mellow 80's pop song by I think maybe Genesis/PC/PG that I can never remember the title or artist of but this is reminding me of it, the rhythms and timbre of the melody in the beginning

This one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRY1NG1P_kw

Album streaming on the Guardian website:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/30/glasser-interiors-album-stream

there are some lovely moments on this but i really don't think it's a patch on ring :(

Agreed. The organic, rhythmic feel of "Ring" juxtsposed with her vocals felt really fresh and different. The new one just sounds overly familiar.

HOLY SHIT, "Exposure" sounds like some lost ...I Care Because You Do cut

Produced by Van Rivers ("T" & "Tremel" off Ring, Fever Ray, Delorean's Apar).

I suspect that like Ring, this will grow on me as vocal ambiance - I'm not a huge fan Mesirow's melodies (they meander), but her taste in producers is impeccable. Bjork with less obvious quirks.

Oh, and "New Year" hits my Japan - Tin Drum buttons. Most immediate of this set; pity about the lyrics.

There's nothing actively bad on this but it's not grabbing me either... late-period Bjork album is exactly the path I didn't want her to go down.

I could listen to "Mirrorage" all day

― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I decided to play the entirety of Ring today instead of just Mirrorage and man, this album is exactly my shit

What?!? Have you never heard the whole thing before?? IT IS SO GOOD OMG

Finally heard the album -- seriously lovely music.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It really is.

― DJP, Sunday, February 20, 2011 11:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I usually only play "Mirrorage" but yes, I know the whole album

oh ok good

^_^

I played Ring for my new dude in the car the other day and realized just how much the vocals are treated w/ this ethereal underwater reverb type thing and how much it contrasts with the cool, crisp immediacy of all the electronics and other instruments

always seems a very nautical sounding album: underwater reverb, ships horns, liquidy effects in general

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0698931875_16.jpg

Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body (2016)

bandcamp, SoundCloud

Stockholm experimental electronica, featuring vocals by Glasser. The bits I've sampled are in the neighborhood of Holly Herndon and the Liquid Sky soundtrack.

Hm! I wonder if this is what she's gonna be doing now or if she's gonna release another Glasser record at some point?

Oh man show last night was sooooo good, workshopping lots of new songs - in fact afaik they were all new. Lots of wind instruments and pointillist, tactile electronic production. And she just owned it - two more Bk shows this month, recommended

Oh, thank goodness Glasser is coming back. Interiors is a stunning album on every level (sonic, lyrical, visual) you could ask of it.
Hopefully we’ll get some new Jonathan Turner artwork out of the package as well?

so, Sextape

the sounds and beats on this are incredible and I love the idea, the intent, even most of the finished product... but I wish this return was song-based too

Did everyone but me know Glasser put out a new song in 2022?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3YQcWvu6L0

https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/glasser_shares_video_for_new_single_new_scars

https://pitchfork.com/news/glasser-announce-first-album-in-10-years-share-new-song-vine-listen/

!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmD7diLShzE

Bjork vibes

new album due tomorrow and I hope it's all as good as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5K4Ap3-HE

Sounds excellent on first listen. At times the vibe is a bit "what if Vulnicura but tunes?", but that doesn't account for some crazy moments like the jig in the second half of "Clipt".

Excited for this!

Yeah, this is great! Not sure why it took 73 years but the results are worth it.

Great timing for a revive here as one of my sons completely surprised me by remembering and singing along to “Mirrorage” this week

Just heard "All Lovers" in my podcast feed, I really dig it.

More Imogen Heap vibes than Bjork to my ears, at least on this tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH82pKEAYjw