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Glasser - Ring Instores Sept. 28th
GLASSER is one woman, Cameron Mesirow, and Ring is her debut album. Her intimate, luxurious music resonated widely on last year’s EP, Apply.
For this new album, recorded in Los Angeles and Stockholm, she worked closely with producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Foreign Born, We Are Scientists) and Fever Ray’s Van Rivers and Subliminal Kid.
Ring displays a newly rich vision of her post-pop sound. Laced with strings, woodwinds and simple, angelic vocal melodies, Ring has the universal lure of a lullaby and a hymn.
She has completed tours with the XX, Jonsí and recently played shows in Montréal and Toronto with label mates Delorean. Her plan is to be on the road solidly through the fall with major opening slots September-December.
She has already attracted serious press and blog attention, including the cover of the upcoming issue of Fader Magazine (August / September).
Two recent 12” singles sold out immediately after release.
Available as a US import, the CD will be issued in limited edition fold-out jacket designed by Tauba Auerbach. LP pressings include a complimentary MP3 download coupon.
The LA Times has tagged Glasser as the Artist “Most Likely To Break in 2010”, saying “Glasser produces songs that veer from clear-voiced folk to layered tracks with an intercontinental / intergalactic edge…an intersection of pop, deconstructed beats, and ethereal noise.”
For more information, please visit www.myspace.com/glasssser
“These are beautiful songs, both sweet and abstract, deeply felt and anodyne.” – New York Times
“This synth siren sounds like a weirder and more credible version of Enya, all ethereal vocals and meandering melodies.” – Guardian UK
“(Tremel) builds its dreamy momentum via overlapping percussion, vocals, synthesizers/electronics, and a feel that’s both tropical and frozen.” – Stereogum
“(EP) Apply lives in its own submerged dream state where heavy breaths, tribal percussion, children’s lullabies, ambient clouds, and ghostly echoes all bubble to the surface right on time.” – Pitchfork
Glasser entered public consciousness in 2009 with her debut EP, Apply, on True Panther, and a UK-only 12” on the Young Turks label. The intimate, luxurious music resonated widely, despite being made by Cameron, alone and in airplanes and shoe stores, on Garage Band. Her EPs and live shows earned her
attention from producers Van Rivers and the Subliminal Kid (who co-produced a few tracks and the transitions on this album).
With Ring, however, Cameron worked for months with producer Ariel Rechtshaid to re-imagine her musical arrangements, incorporating organic instrumentation like strings, woodwinds, bass, and a wide array of percussion into her once-sparse recordings. Her simple, minimal melodies and rapturous vocals are perfectly complimented by the album’s maximalist arrangements. The voice becomes a focal
instrument, delivers abstract stories and sounds that drench the music in emotion without resorting to narrative cliches.
In Glasser there exists, side by side, the optimism of a woman captivated by creation and travel, as well as the anxiety that accompanies nomadism and change. Somehow, in Glasser’s efforts to make sense of her world, she has made an album with the universal lure of both a lullaby and a hymn.
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