I would be remiss if I didn’t excitedly feature a new-ish song from an artist that I posted about within the first few months of this blog even existing. Glasser, the musical project of Cameron Mesirow, is returning with a new album crux, out October 6 via One Little Independent. This is Glasser’s first full-length album since 2013’s Interiors, and prior to that her 2010 debut Ring, an album that I LOVED upon the creation of Warm Visions back in 2010, especially the lead single “Home”. I even featured Glasser as one of my “most exciting new artists of 2010”, a list I didn’t directly lift from Stereogum at the time, don’t worry about it. Interiors was also a favorite from 2013, with “Keam Theme” continuing to be a track I have in my “Favorites of the 2010s” playlists.

But back to the present. After some time away, Glasser is returning with said new album, crux. There are three singles from it out now, but I wanted to give some shine to the first one, “Vine”. It’s a beautiful, pulsating track that’s led its strings and percussion, each grabbing a hand of Mesirow’s singing voice, and thrusting it into a void that continually sinks further down, or further up and out, depending on who’s listening. The life-giving strings and thumping percussion fluctuate in the channels, weaving together (like vines, hmm?), telling a story without needing words, Mesirow is there to keep the story flowing.

I cannot wait for this album – crux is out October 6 via One Little Independent.