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?
― Captain Ahab, Friday, 9 April 2010 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjY_tzLSW4o
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Friday, 9 April 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Love this stuff. This and Walls and Gayngs are my late at night, no one else is in the building music.
― Doran, Friday, 9 April 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Captain Ahab, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Not surprised. The Fader has been pushing her hard since day one.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Ooh, I like the YouTube posted above. Yes, this seems like it's relevant to my interests.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Her voice (especially on the remixes) sounds *so* much like the girl who sings on the Flight Facilities single.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link
saw her/them opening for Delorian. Pretty good songs and beats. Dancing needs some work.
― shudder, Thursday, 26 August 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
been jamming "tremel" most of the summer (and the astronomer remix as well)
gr8 drums on this remix
― abele (avinha), Monday, 13 September 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this!
― Arlen Lewis (admrl), Monday, 13 September 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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.)
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 13 September 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I love both Tremel and Apply, especially the drums on the latter. When is the album out?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Captain Ahab, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I will go to that Amoeba show
― Nano McPhee (admrl), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Have been listening to the EP and it's good!
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
The album is terrific.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh shit, it's up on Spotify.
― My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally a headphones record by the way, it sounds huge.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Liking this a lot. Voice is a bit Angel Deradoorian imo.
― My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
headphones record, absolutely. love "mirrorage" especially. matt she's playing a london gig on fri, you should come.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
lex where's she playing on friday?
― just sayin, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Argh sadly I have plans for Friday, bet she's great live.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Date for Friday is listed as:
1 October 2010Alfred University, Alfred
― My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently that is a real place.
― My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the friday date is @ the macbeth in sditch??
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Lex, it looks like that is happening on 11-Oct not 1-Oct. Free tickets via that myspace link btw.
― My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
damn monday is not as fun as a friday but i will still be there
― just sayin, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Album is great!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is lovely and totally harmonizing with the change of seasons here
― ๏̯͡๏ (another al3x), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
MIRRORAGE
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
If only we knew of a mod who was able to edit it.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
just want to make sure all glasser lovers have heard this remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA9qTtLQJ1U
― another al3x, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
digging that a lot, thanks!
― dayo, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
getting a sinead-goes-to-ibiza vibe off "tremel"
― creeping shania (donna rouge), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
she was really great live last night, this album just keeps on growing on me.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yea she was awesome, amazing voice
― just sayin, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― just sayin, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Discovered her album at the weekend, like it a lot - and "Mirrorage" is my favourite too. Ooh-waa's and gamelans, lovely.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― doo doo frown :( (Stevie D), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
That's an awesome story.
― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Wheal Dream, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
obsessed with this album now, and the 'mirrorage' video is WOW
― womack and bolio's (donna rouge), Sunday, 24 October 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
― Mark, Monday, 25 October 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
this song has its own weird pace
― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
concentrating on her vocal melody is arresting
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 22 August 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
It's making me v concerned that her debut was a fluke instead of the foundation for a really rich career
― #REV! (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Thursday, 22 August 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
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
― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:56 (ten years ago) link
Looking forward to it: http://thequietus.com/articles/13211-glasser-announces-new-album-interiors
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
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.
― the tune was space, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Waluigi Nono (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 12 September 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Almost sounds like a female-fronted Japan, but there's some other connection I can't put my finger on.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 12 September 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 12 September 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
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'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
i like the song much more than the previous one, but smh at her talent-show/stripper moves in the video.
― red sobule (get bent), Thursday, 12 September 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
Music videos are always kind of awful, except for maybe that Haim one that all the guys on here were whining about
― dell (del), Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
I got it - the repetitive backing synth brings to mind Tangerine Dream's Risky Business soundtrack.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Oh I am feeling this track sooooo much more than the last one!! This has the magic of Ring imo
― Baby, where'd you get Chobani from? (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 12 September 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link
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
― Baby, where'd you get Chobani from? (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 September 2013 02:18 (ten years ago) link
This one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRY1NG1P_kw
― Baby, where'd you get Chobani from? (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 September 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
Album streaming on the Guardian website:http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/30/glasser-interiors-album-stream
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Monday, 30 September 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
there are some lovely moments on this but i really don't think it's a patch on ring :(
― lex pretend, Monday, 30 September 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
Agreed. The organic, rhythmic feel of "Ring" juxtsposed with her vocals felt really fresh and different. The new one just sounds overly familiar.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
HOLY SHIT, "Exposure" sounds like some lost ...I Care Because You Do cut
― Stevie D(eux), Thursday, 3 October 2013 01:39 (ten years ago) link
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.
― جهاد النكاح (Sanpaku), Thursday, 3 October 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and "New Year" hits my Japan - Tin Drum buttons. Most immediate of this set; pity about the lyrics.
― جهاد النكاح (Sanpaku), Thursday, 3 October 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 October 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
I could listen to "Mirrorage" all day― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― DJP, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
I decided to play the entirety of Ring today instead of just Mirrorage and man, this album is exactly my shit
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 21 August 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
What?!? Have you never heard the whole thing before?? IT IS SO GOOD OMG
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 21 August 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
Finally heard the album -- seriously lovely music.― Ned Raggett, Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkIt really is.― DJP, Sunday, February 20, 2011 11:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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 Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 21 August 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
I usually only play "Mirrorage" but yes, I know the whole album
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 21 August 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
oh ok good
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 21 August 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
^_^
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 21 August 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
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
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
always seems a very nautical sounding album: underwater reverb, ships horns, liquidy effects in general
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Unyielding Dispair Foundation Repair, LLC (Sanpaku), Sunday, 24 April 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link
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?
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 24 April 2016 00:22 (eight years ago) link
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
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
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?
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
so, Sextape
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 21 June 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
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
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 21 June 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
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
― Indexed, Thursday, 12 January 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/glasser-announce-first-album-in-10-years-share-new-song-vine-listen/
!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmD7diLShzE
― Indexed, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:44 (ten months ago) link
Bjork vibes
― Indexed, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:29 (ten months ago) link
new album due tomorrow and I hope it's all as good as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5K4Ap3-HE
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 5 October 2023 13:17 (six months ago) link
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".
― Tim F, Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:14 (six months ago) link
Excited for this!
― Indexed, Thursday, 5 October 2023 20:28 (six months ago) link
Yeah, this is great! Not sure why it took 73 years but the results are worth it.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 8 October 2023 01:26 (six months ago) link
Great timing for a revive here as one of my sons completely surprised me by remembering and singing along to “Mirrorage” this week
― the new drip king (DJP), Sunday, 8 October 2023 16:48 (six months ago) link
Just heard "All Lovers" in my podcast feed, I really dig it.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 22:04 (six months ago) link
More Imogen Heap vibes than Bjork to my ears, at least on this tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH82pKEAYjw
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 10:37 (one month ago) link