Glasser — the art-pop project helmed by Boston-born songwriter and producer Cameron Mesirow — has announced crux, her first new album in a decade and the full-length follow-up to 2013's Interiors. The album is arriving on October 6 via One Little Independent.
Alongside the announcement, she's also shared "Vine," the record's shivering lead single. In a statement about the new music, Mesirow said:
I wanted to create something where all the parts sound like they're very separated. I was thinking like jazz, actually. It was about getting back to writing music after feeling a bit disconnected from the machinery around making music your profession.
She also provided some context for her hiatus:
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.
In 2018, Glasser released her Sextape EP, following it in 2021 with the one-off single "New Scars."
Check out "Vine," plus the crux tracklist, below.
crux:
1. A Guide
2. Vine
3. Easy
4. Knave
5. Mass Love
6. Thick Waltz
7. All Lovers
8. Clipt
9. Undrunk
10. Drift
11. Ophrys
12. Choir Prayer
Alongside the announcement, she's also shared "Vine," the record's shivering lead single. In a statement about the new music, Mesirow said:
I wanted to create something where all the parts sound like they're very separated. I was thinking like jazz, actually. It was about getting back to writing music after feeling a bit disconnected from the machinery around making music your profession.
She also provided some context for her hiatus:
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.
In 2018, Glasser released her Sextape EP, following it in 2021 with the one-off single "New Scars."
Check out "Vine," plus the crux tracklist, below.
crux:
1. A Guide
2. Vine
3. Easy
4. Knave
5. Mass Love
6. Thick Waltz
7. All Lovers
8. Clipt
9. Undrunk
10. Drift
11. Ophrys
12. Choir Prayer
