CD Review – Glasser
Ring
True Panther Sounds
Like a less bizarre Bjork, Glasser (aka Cameron Mesirow) will blow you away with her quirky electro-pop especially on the opener “Apply” when she throws a couple of “Wops” in the middle of the song. It’s like she was trying to emulate ESPN football analyst Chris Berman and the sound he makes when someone slips a tackle. (If you don’t know what that sounds like, it sounds like this.) Her etherial voice can sometimes camoflauge much darker lyrics. “Clouds of dust, raining on us/ There was a phantom of me in a bed of love” from “Home” immediately sticks out. There are tribal beats (“Apply”) and what sounds like a sitar on “Glad” that make this album sound like a worldly (and much better) Sarah McLachlan album. Glasser’s debut LP is definitely refreshing and fans of McLachlan, Bjork, etc. will have stumbled upon another iPod favorite.
