New Glassacre Single Released

PRLog (Press Release) - Nov 22, 2007 -
The Australian music label, Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the single ‘September 16th’ by Australian dream popsters Glassacre.

‘September 16th’  is the first single to be lifted from Glassacre’s forthcoming full length Without Sleep to be released through Hidden Shoal Recordings early 2008.

The track sees Glassacre at the height of their craft. ‘September 16th’ is a tightly woven, intimately crafted piece of textured pop. Guitars coated in dark honey play against rolling drums as Chris Mason’s haunting vocals ring out across an altered twilight.

As the song rallies to a kind of defeated triumph with the repeated vocal line “This is your stop”, everything shifts and the track takes a sharp 90 degree turn into a dark corridor. In true Glassacre style, ‘September 16th’ manages to discretely bridge together two disparate emotional landscapes leaving the listener without view of their origin.

The single release features the bonus track ‘Sanctuary’ also lifted from the forthcoming Glassacre album Without Sleep. ‘Sanctuary’ is Glassacre in drug dub dream pop mode. The song slides over you like a friendly cloud as the 5/4 beat gently slips you out of kilter. It is these subtle nuances and attention to detail that sets Glassacre apart. Whilst their sound is always gorgeously augmented the end result is always affect as opposed to mere effect.  
The single release follows on from Glassacre’s wonderfully received 2006 debut EP Slow Attack.

“Western Australia’s Glassacre, is all shimmer and surge……. the power of this music will creep up on you gradually, and before you know it the damn thing is on repeat play.” - Luna Kafe

‘September 16th’ is available now exclusively from the HSR Store.

Glassacre
Glassacre’s music plays at the edges of electronica and pop while never really committing to either.  The outfit is a delayed conversation between its collective members. A kind of handing over and giving in of the constituent elements in the hope that something larger will form. The sometimes skewed pop of their first ep, “Slow Attack”, is perhaps a misleading introduction to the process that underlies it - some-thing between an exquisite corpse and Frankenstein's bride.

The Label
Hidden Shoal Recordings current catalogue includes releases that slip between the edges of experimental ambient work, shoegazing pop, post-rock and indie rock. The label has earned a reputation for releasing exciting and engaging new independent music that is not bound by genre or style.


Label Site: http://music.hiddenshoal.com
HSR Store: http://agora.hiddenshoal.com

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