Glasser announces first album in 10 years

Boston-born singer-producer Cameron Mesirow has announced her third full-length album as Glasser, and her first in 10 years. crux, the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s Interiors, is due out October 6 via One Little Independent Records. The news comes with the project’s lead single, “Vine,” which finds Mesirow in peak form, cooing about flight over a propulsive beat. Like her new labelmate Björk, Mesirow has a knack for angular melodies that dart above and below her instrumentals’ glassy surfaces, and she’s accompanied here by longing string swells and synth chirps that accentuate the urgency of her delivery.

“Just getting back to making songs was hard for me after the last album,” she says in a press statement, explaining her long pause. “When I made my first album, I didn’t have an established routine of trying and failing, it was very immediate. The second record was made after a few years of touring, which is a very unstable life, and I still didn’t establish a relationship to creating things regularly. After its release, I didn’t have a center from which to recompose myself. The thing that finally brought me back to music as a positive experience was that I began taking lessons to learn Balkan singing. I wanted to try to learn all this vocal gymnastic stuff that I was listening to in the Bulgarian state television choir records. I started writing songs and working toward an album.”

Listen to “Vine” and check out crux’s cover art and tracklist below.

1. A Guide
2. Vine
3. Easy
4. Knave
5. Mass Love
6. Thick Waltz
7. All Lovers
8. Clipt
9. Undrunk
10. Drift
11. Ophrys
12. Choir Prayer