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- Summary: This is the debut full-length album for Cameron Mesirow as Glasser.
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- Record Label: True Panther Sounds
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Electronic, Dream Pop
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Positive: 15 out of 20
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Mixed: 5 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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It's an ambitious, perhaps even hypercompositional debut, one whose strange beauty demands attention.
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There is little time wasted in this record's nine songs, and that Mesirow packs so many wonderful sounds into it without really complicating the chord progressions or basic melodies is perhaps the truest testament to her talent.
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Under The RadarOct 26, 2010Upon first listen, Ring is entirely enjoyabe, but there's something about the second run through the loop that is transcendent. [Fall 2010, p.60]
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It's also in those nature-obsessed lyrics, delivered in tones so dulcet and hypnotic that the inclination to don a robe and commune with Vespertine-era Bjork is overwhelming.
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Oct 25, 2010Ring is more a cohesive, narrative song cycle than a simple collection of disparate pop songs.
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It's tempting to deride the album as too similar at times, but the truth is that each of these songs is a perfectly sculpted and realised work of wonder revolving around a couple of central themes, which appears to be based primarily in the sounds of the Orient and the South American rainforest.
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The music of 2000 sounds pretty tantric by comparison. And anyone old enough to have been swept up in the ornate neo-psych of the mid- to late-90s now has a right to feel a little ripped off by their nostalgia. All of which is to suppose how Glasser's debut LP, Ring, sounds beautiful, complex, intricate, and so on, and yet fails to actualize her.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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May 15, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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