Glasser has announced Crux, her first new album in 10 years. It’s out October 6 via One Little Independent. The new album follows 2013’s Interiors and the 2018 mix Sextape. “I wanted to create something where all the parts sound like they’re very separated,” Glasser’s Cameron Mesirow said in a statement. “I was thinking like jazz, actually. It was about getting back to writing music after feeling a bit disconnected from the machinery around making music your profession.” Check out the new album’s lead single, “Vine,” below.

In a press release, Mesirow further explained the hiatus:

Just getting back to making songs was hard for me after the last album. 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.

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Glasser: Crux

Crux:

01 A Guide
02 Vine
03 Easy
04 Knave
05 Mass Love
06 Thick Waltz
07 All Lovers
08 Clipt
09 Undrunk
10 Drift
11 Ophrys
12 Choir Prayer

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