In
this great year of music, I find myself referencing someone such as Austra more
and more, but that makes me wonder who I would have drawn the comparisons to
had I not heard her music this year. I
try to think of it in that blank slate way, but come up with nothing ultimately
and am just glad that I have Austra to rely on.
This
can sound like any number of other things that you’re probably used to hearing
in music with strong female vocals, Everything But the Girl comes to mind, but
it does stand out enough on its own that I’m willing to give these older
Glasser albums a listen as well. And
sometimes that is the true testament of how good a band is based on one album—whether
or not you want to go and listen to everything you can by them after first
hearing them.
Also,
this might just be my little nitpicking part, but the background on the first
song on this album has a sound not too much unlike the opening bit from
Everclear’s “So Much For the Afterglow”.
Yes, I might be the only one who hears that (or maybe everyone does, I
don’t know, I don’t read the reviews) but it still gets me every time. It’d be nice to see Glasser live and have
that song for just one second mention Susan, but alas, I jest.
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