Ring
Album | Glasser
A strange and lovely grower.
Glasser is the brainchild of Cameron Mesirow, a vocalist and musician with a penchant for crafting tunes that sound more like 21st-century chants than actual tunes. Not that it’s a bad thing. Glasser’s music is simultaneously ephemeral and tribal, a crazy amalgam of primal percussion and spaced-out synth sounds piled on top of Mesirow’s lilting, yelping, soaring vocals. (Mesirow comes by that feral vocal style naturally: her mother Casey Cameron was one of the vocalists in nervy Boston new wavers Human Sexual Response.) Bringing to mind artists like Fever Ray, Gang Gang Dance and sometimes even early Bjork, Glasser is, like them, a grower: Ring reveals more of itself on repeated listens. Mesirow knows her way around a lovely melody, but most songs here are like blooming flowers: blurts of sound that open and expand, grow and build, and then abruptly stop. The absence of traditional song structures might take a little getting used to, but tracks like “Mirrorage” and “Treasury of We” just might be some of the strangest and loveliest pop moments of 2010.
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