Glasser: the newest LA diva

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

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