Glasses, by Glasses

Glasses

by Glasses

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1.	Autumn Bells 02:56	buy track
2.	Exclusion 03:52	buy track
3.	Emotional Decay 05:01	buy track
4.	Storms 03:56	buy track
5.	Isolated Incident 04:46	buy track

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Influenced by both the ambient and aggressive sounds of acts like Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin, and by the towering impassioned overtures from acts such as Radiohead and Vangelis, this EP is brimming with contrast. Languid, melancholic synthesizer tones are painted against a backdrop of ambient found sounds and rich, aggressive rhythms that impart a sense of calm within the storm. Elsewhere on the EP, you will find spacious emotional overtures that are both haunting and introspective, touching on a sense of isolation and the unrelenting motion of time; bathed and saturated in vivid analog textures, delicate string arrangements, and poignant guitar work that brings you to a time and place just within reach of home.

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This record was recorded and mixed entirely in a small home studio at the foothills of a mountain range, beneath a backdrop of endlessly blue skies and towering rock formations. “I wanted to take a more lackadaisical approach to writing this EP,” says Arizona-based artist, Glasses. “I would walk into the studio early in the morning, boot up a synth or punch a drum loop into some weird compressor, then just take it from there. I tried to be more hands-off, and I tried to use the lack of control as a catalyst to bounce to the next instrument, or track. Sometimes it would take me months to get it right, sometimes it came together in a day or so.”

When asked about what influenced this record outside of other music, Glasses mentions that he “…was pretty heavily influenced by some travel footage I was watching from the Belarus and Moldova at the time. Old hotels from the Soviet days still in operation, decrepit bunkers and villages, that sort of thing. I was also very into extremely slow burning, moody films; I fell asleep to Tarkovsky’s films on a few occasions, and watched Blade Runner quite a few times while lying on the carpet here.”

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released August 18, 2019

Personnel:

Glasses - synthesizers, programming, guitars, engineering

Mastered by Joe Caithness Mastering (www.joecaithnessmastering.com)

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