[Introducing] – Glass Vaults

I’d say my ratio for PR companies sending me half-decent music is maybe one out of ten (sometimes two), and I don’t get a whole lot of PR releases.  That either says something about the state of music, or about PR, or about both, but those one or two times that they nail it and send me something good, holy fucking shit do they nail it.

Thanks to my girl Jessi, New Zealand’s Glass Vaults (Richard Larsen and Rowan Pierce) are now up there with my favourite musical discoveries of the year (because I’ve made a few medical and scientific discoveries this year too, but you’ll have to read my feature in National Geographic for those).  I don’t think I had even made my way through their second song before I’d bought their exquisite 12″ EP (limited to 500, hand numbered, and on 180g motherfucking two-tone vinyl!), a sublime five-song exploration that could easily soundtrack a future civilisation in a constant state of either Summer or Winter that’s entirely dependent on which song you’re listening to.

Layered with cacophonous electronic walls of sound, tightly coiled around the duo’s thirst for breezy vocals -at times reminiscent of Thom Yorke (the closing refrain on “Worrier”), and at other times no doubt comparable to Animal Collective (“New Space”), the entire EP sails from one song to the next with barely time to breathe in between (not that you’d want to anyway).

Below you can hear a couple of their songs and over at Jukboxr you can not only listen to the entire thing, but also purchase that beautiful piece of wax, due to ship on November 1st.

Keep up to date with Glass Vaults – MySpace | Bandcamp

Glass Vaults – “Worrier”
Glass Vaults – “Forget Me Not”