Earlier this week, ex-Flying members Eliot Krimsky and Mike Johnson offered up “The Same,” an art-pop parade of a track that had the Voice referencing J Dilla and us rattling off the grab-bag of disparate embellishments that made it an unlikely but compelling first listen to the duo’s forthcoming debut as Glass Ghost. I went deep into “Like A Diamond” then, too, which first caught our ears when it circulated in demo form some time back. The introspective, gently aspirated bedtime gem pops up on the album as well, in slightly modified form: the Rhodes and rimclicking beats still anchor Krimsky’s candlelit falsetto, but the production pushes it all a little further back from earshot, giving it an even more ghostly air even as newly added instrumentation creeps into its final minutes.
Glass Ghost’s Idol Omens is out this fall via Western Vinyl, and features guest appearances from Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic), Joan (As Policewoman) Wasser, and Sharon Van Etten among many others.
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this song is fucking balls. “i don’t know they know whyyy, but i have the sense i’m not feeling” nonsensical line over the same electric piano part=blog glory!
in this instance, does “fucking balls” mean good or bad? I can’t tell if you’re a hater or just a contemplater.
Describing those cat-death sounds as “candlelit falsetto” is possibly as far from the truth as saying that a surprise live performance of theirs at a Rooftop Films venue is thrilling. A couple of months ago, I sat through forty-five minutes of this same string of sounds, given different titles. It was nothing to even sit still for.
I used to have faith in what you said, Stereogum. What happened!?
if youre bitter and hard of hearing you should refrain from commenting on music. the drummer keeps rhythms that puts drum machines to shame and the singer’s voice, while maybe not immediately accessible, is strangely beautiful and oozes and chants over the bumps and clicks of the drumbeats…not to mention that the singer also commands three keyboards while singing….and trying to convey the complexities (that all blend to simplistic bliss) to a large crowd seated at the closest 30 feet away on the rooftop of a school that is not equipped for concerts is not the easiest environment to be performing in and thus might not be the most justified evidence to judge someone so harshly by. oh and if youre going to say a lyric is nonsensical you might want to, you know…correctly hear it.
love this band. love this song. amazing on record and live, as well.
I like the way this sounds a lot.