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
[8] Comments
September 1st, 2010 at 5:35 pm
i don’t mean to be a pedant (THIS TIME) but first band to be embraced by blogs? what about ruby suns?? or every band on flying nun ever? xo
September 2nd, 2010 at 11:13 pm
@cool, yeah I remember Scorched Earth Policy’s ‘Dust To Dust’ record taking the international blog community by storm in 1984… What are you talking about?
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:07 pm
starts with an l, ends with adyhawke
September 3rd, 2010 at 7:51 pm
hey check it out it’s me jackson, i love naming obscure bands on emj so the indie teens check out my radio show/smd after shows with my v underground band, also i am a big fan of missing the point
September 5th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
though TBH jackson i think your band is pretty good
September 9th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
i think we have missed each other’s point here. i was just being a negNancy and pointing out that blogs weren’t invented when flying nun was or something.
September 11th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
how bout glass vaults though eh??????? na i don’t like them
September 19th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Get Over It and embrace the music