Glass Vaults: new video
Wed 1 Sep 2010
New Space: New Discovery
Some releases can take a while to fully digest, others hit you instantly. Glass Vaults’ debut EP has done both; immediately what jumped out was its trance-like electronics and tribal percussion, but over time it has revealed much more, with vocal shout-outs, spacey drone and whistling theremin-esque sirens all becoming more recognisable. If you haven’t downloaded the Wellington duo’s debut EP, Glass, I suggest you head over to bandcamp and do so. Since its release on June 16 it has had numerous international blogs praising its beauty and as I write this post their song ‘Forget Me Not’ is currently sitting at #80 on Hype Machine’s ‘Most Favorited Music Chart’. Glass Vaults could be the first NZ band to be widely embraced by the international blog community.
A couple of weeks ago the band released its first music video, for the song ‘New Space’. Much like the Glass EP cover art, it’s coloured with hazy pastels and fails to reveal the identities of band members Rowan Pierce and Richard Larsen. It’s shot high in the mountains above the snow line and follows a young hooded individual as he climbs towards the summit. It perfectly captures the song’s iciness and fits with the shadowy drone-heavy synths that drive the song’s melodic structure.
Posted by Nick Fulton under New Zealand, Wellington
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