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"Drift" WATCH: https://youtu.be/2o0eLaQZcAM LISTEN: https://glasser.lnk.to/drift
crux PRE-ORDER/SAVE: https://glasser.lnk.to/crux
“A methodical, computer-tethered expedition into the vast, wild expanse of human feeling...chilly digital perfection" Pitchfork
"an eerie, enveloping benediction" The New York Times
"Striking" The FADER
“Potent, sexually charged and teeming with life” Dazed
(July 6, 2023) - Glasser shares a new single and video, "Drift," from her upcoming anticipated album, crux, arriving on October 6th via One Little Independent Records. The song features Eleonore Oppenheim on bass, Jason Yang on violin, with Patrick Ford contributing string arrangements. Glasser shares, "The song was written a really long time ago. I was so excited about it that when I wrote it I made like fifty different versions of the song and the one that's on the record is an amalgam of three different versions. That lyric is just something that came out of me, 'What a good life / Except for all those times / When you want to die' It was kind of meant to be a joke, but sounds quite serious in the context of the entire record. But also, jokes are serious sometimes too. It's good to joke about serious things, for me at least. I made so many versions. And I really wanted the final version to have a dark disco vibe because dancing about death is better than weeping. They're both good, but I wanted to dance about that."
Adding about how the concept for the video came together Glasser notes, "The concept for the video originally came together from an earlier visual I shot with Niles Roth in the Poconos in an abandoned love motel. We shot a video there which was my face projected onto my face in the rubble of this space. The original video never came out and when it was time to shoot a new video for this song we were inspired by the original footage we captured and incorporated a similar concept."
The new track follows her lead single "Vine," which was accompanied by a Julia Crockett visual. Her first album in ten years, crux discusses the death of an old friend, her meditations on the fragility of life and the delicacy of relationships in times of uncertainty. More than anything it’s about the importance of creativity and writing while healing, and on an individual level, looking inward and the examination of one’s grief, anxiety, and insecurities. Musically it searches outward, including the use of traditional folk, Celtic to communicate her Scottish roots, and Eastern-European styles, all introduced to her lush, atmospheric production, intricate vocal harmonies, and complex rhythms.
Apart from her majestic 2022 single "New Scars," crux marks a return following her sublime Sextape mix in 2018 and two critically acclaimed albums, Ring and Interiors, released in 2010 and 2013, respectively. In this time Glasser performed at MoMA, PS1, The Walker Arts Center, MOCA, Coachella, Primavera, Latitude, Field Day, and she toured with the XX and Sigur Rós' Jónsi. She’s also collaborated on remix projects with the likes of Fever Ray, Jamie XX and John Talabot.
Explaining the hiatus, Glasser shares; “Just getting back to making songs was hard for me after the last album. When I made my first album, I didn’t have an established routine of trying and failing, it was very immediate. The second record was made after a few years of touring, which is a very unstable life, and I still didn’t establish a relationship to creating things regularly. After its release, I didn’t have a center from which to recompose myself. The thing that finally brought me back to music as a positive experience was that I began taking lessons to learn Balkan singing. I wanted to try to learn all this vocal gymnastic stuff that I was listening to in the Bulgarian state television choir records. I started writing songs and working toward an album.”
The tracks on crux weave disparate elements together into a cohesive, complimentary whole. They make up an album that seamlessly marries an eclectic array of sounds to create a complete, immersive concept piece about the search for meaning and answers through the creation of art. Coming back to the making of an album after a decade (released 10 years and 2 days after to be precise) wasn’t only therapeutic but necessary to process notions of life and death. Cameron shares, “I guess it’s just about the sort of inevitability of us coming to our own fate, and some of the lyrics are about my voice and the fear of my voice disappearing. Itself a kind of death. This record for me is texturally and thematically half heaven and half earth. crux was a word that stuck with me always, as it’s onomatopoeic, it literally sounds like a vital aspect of intersection. It’s a cross in Latin, and it’s a horizon to me. I’m the crux of this project and I’m on the earth and heaven is inside of me. And in us all.”
Born in Boston, raised in the Bay Area by musician parents, Mesirow crafted GarageBand demos that pitted her delicate, swooping vocals over sparse electronic rhythms and circular melodies that evoked avant-garde music and global folk. These tracks made their way to labels True Panther and Young Turks, which released both her albums. She self-released Sextape, an intimate project that built her production around conversations on formative sexual experiences, which was praised by fans and critics alike. She is now signed to One Little Independent Records. Listen to "Drift" and pre-order/save crux above. Stay tuned for more music from Glasser coming soon. | 
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