Glasser Returns With Sophomore Album Interiors – Oct. 8th

Glasser, née Cameron Mesirow, is returning with her sophomore album Interiors, out October 8 via True Panther Sounds. The follow up to 2010’s critically acclaimed debut RingInteriors was produced by Glasser and Van Rivers (Fever Ray, Blonde Redhead).

Check out the new single “Shape” below:

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In the three years since Glasser released her breakout debut Ring, she toured around the world (with Jónsi of Sigur Rós, The xx, Delorean, among others) and left her California home for New York City.  The collapsing of California’s dreamy, empty expanse for that of New York City’s frenetic, tightly-knit landscapes set off a new trajectory of exploration for Glasser, one that focused on the definition of space, both outside and in.  Bouts of mild agoraphobia coupled with the end of a long-term relationship brought two variations on the theme of spaces to Glasser, who began working on her new record in earnest upon settling down in the city.  Along the way, she discovered a new partner in producer Van Rivers, whose background in techno production added elements to her music that reflected both the looming, condensed architecture of Glasser’s new adopted home, as well as the intricate internal worlds she was conjuring on her own.

This tension between the interior and the exterior sets the tone for Interiors. In architect Rem Koolhaas’ book Delirious New York, which Glassercredits as an inspiration, the author suggests that New York’s massive, stoic-faced buildings are monuments rife with secrets. Interiors isGlasser’s attempt to exorcise and address some of those metropolitan secrets. On “Landscape” Glasser explores the limitations of symbiosis in a romantic relationship, while “Exposure” characterizes the alienation of life in an ever-changing metropolis as a “modern trouble” that no one feels responsible for, but all complacently contribute to.  A trio of shorter songs called “Windows” punctuate the production, and feature some of the most experimental sections of music on the album – windows being where the inside and outside nearly meet, providing partial glimpses of scenes from other worlds, but preventing contact.  There is urgency pervasive throughout the record, both to gain access to feelings or people, as well as wanting to be released from them.

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