Albums
crux
2023
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2023
By Peyton Toups
Reviewed December 21, 2023
Cameron Mesirow’s third album as Glasser is lightly fanciful yet deeply felt, using subtle flourishes to consider the meaning of death and what comes after.
Cameron Mesirow—better known as art pop auteur Glasser—has always done it herself. Ring, her 2010 debut, was entirely made with Garageband. Its follow-up, 2013’s Interiors, traded colorful ridges for sleek contemporary avant-garde pop yet retained an independent spirit. A decade later, for her third studio album, Mesirow has pivoted to something more complex and idiosyncratic. If looked to the future and faced the past, is nestled in a baroque, nearly-medieval period—a sort of in-between-ness of things, befitting for the album’s narrative of life after the death of a close friend. Falling back on her Celtic and Scottish roots, Mesirow crafts a lightly fanciful yet deeply felt elegy, using subtle flourishes to consider the meaning of death and what comes after.