Texan heavyweights Glassing unveil new single »Nothing Touches You« taken from their upcoming album »From The Other Side Of The Mirror«
Austin, Texas based blackened sludge/post-hardcore trio Glassing has unveiled the second single »Nothing Touches You« taken from their fourth full-length album, »From The Other Side Of The Mirror«, due out April 26 via Pelagic Records.
Tracklist:
01. Anything You Want
02. Nothing Touches You
03. Defacer
04. Sallow
05. Nominal Will
06. Ritualist
07. As My Heart Rots
08. Circle Down
09. The Kestrel Goes
10. Wake
Courtesy of Pelagic Records:
Heavy veterans Glassing have unleashed »Nothing Touches You«, an inimitable cacophony of post-rock euphoria and blackened metal fury lifted from the band’s fourth full-length album, »From The Other Side Of The Mirror«, which is due to be released on 26th April through Berlin’s Pelagic Records.
Born of Austin’s underground musical melting pot; Glassing erupted onto the scene in 2017 with punishing drums, searing angular feedback and frontman/bassist Dustin Coffman’s sandpaper screams setting out to redefine the idea of heavy music to better reflect increasingly heavy times. Having overcome every grisly obstacle in their path, 2022 saw the band enlist formidable drummer Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Planet B) who bolsters Coffman’s gut-punching basslines and provides the perfect foil for guitarist Cory Brim’s razor-sharp playing style.
More discordant, more distorted and angrier than ever, »From The Other Side Of The Mirror« is a metaphysical foray into the fractured, warped impressions of ourselves that exist only in the minds of others. »Nothing Touches You« however, sees Glassing let the tiniest amount of light in amongst pummeling blast beats, panoramic shoegaze soundscapes and deceptively duplicitous post-hardcore vocals.
On an album inspired by the twisted figments of ourselves that exist only in the minds of others, and with Coffman assuming a different persona on each track, »Nothing Touches You« appears at first to be sincere and heartfelt but his dichotic vocal delivery on top of the song’s sudden and unexpected lurches in dynamic and pace force the listener to constantly reconsider and reevaluate what they assume to be the truth. Just as »Nothing Touches You« can be interpreted as adoring and celebratory it can just as easily be read as distant, icy and judgemental and that’s exactly what Glassing want.
»From The Other Side Of The Mirror« invites us inside to take a hard and heavy look at ourselves from an alien, uncompromising and often unsettling perspective. The album is the convergence of self-destructive introspection and the unwelcome understanding that no one ever reveals how they really see you or, as Coffman puts it, “You might catch your reflection from time to time, but you’ll never know who put it there, them or you.” The space between soaring euphoria and dwindling hope is much thinner than so many of us would dare to admit. Glassing not only reside in this liminal space, but thrive.
»From The Other Side Of The Mirror« is out on April 26th.
»Nothing Touches You« is out now.
Glassing’s Dustin Coffman on »Nothing Touches You«: “»Nothing Touches You« is about unrequited emotional connections. The song’s dynamic transitions from aggression to vulnerability are meant to reflect what it feels like to love without reciprocation.”
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Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well