Glasser, born Cameron Mesirow, breaks her 10-year music hiatus with her third album, Crux, a fantastical foray into whimsical electronica. Despite Vogue calling her catalog primarily horny, Crux sees the Boston artist explore themes of personal identity and emotional vulnerability.
“Just getting back to making songs was hard for me after the last album,” Mesirow said. “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 with creating things regularly. After its release, I didn’t have a center from which to recompose myself.”
Propelled by the lead single, “Vine,” Glasser’s Cameron Mesirow defines a singular eccentricity for the project. “The song was written a really long time ago,” she said in a statement. “I was so excited about it that when I wrote it I made like fifty different version of the song and the one that’s on the record is an amalgam of three different versions.”
Much like labelmate Björk, the 12-track project strays off-kilter pop. Mesirow spectacularly intertwines angular melodies with the instrumentals’ watery surfaces, which creates a longing yet urgent synth.
The meditative yet unnerving production of “All Lovers” pairs well with closing track “Choir Prayer.” “I didn’t really have a great lyrical plan,” she said of the former. “I was going through a breakup, and I just sang some of the words that were on the page and felt their shape more than their meaning.”
Glasser’s Crux is a work-up of chilling experimental trance and fluid ambiance, highlighting Mesirow as a potent rising voice in the alt-pop scene, especially on the bittersweet “Easy,” an ode to Cameron Mesirow’s first love who passed away from an accidental overdose.
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