This week the best thing I found is not my favorite thing ever but it has the most potential and is the most professional this week. Glass Waves are a 3 piece out of St. Louis made up of a group of guys who have spent years with other bands and came together in 2008 and made this album, their debut together called “One Day We’ll All Just Float Away”. A fluid musically based style accompanied by a haunting vocal overlay this band as one to watch out for. To simply define a genre for Glass Waves is to try and “catch lighting in a bottle”, it cant be done, there are some strong pop and pop rock influences evident by their sound, but they also have a great indie rock sound with guitars that are reminiscent of the great Johnny Marr, the former guitarist of Indie forefathers “The Smiths”, and most recently of “Modest Mouse”.
I started off by saying this isn’t one of my favorites, so you may be asking “Why on earth did you post it then?” Well you’ll notice this is the second time I have posted an album that has not been my favorite or that has been disappointing. The reason for this is that these albums are note worthy and show signs of potential superstars.
What drawbacks do I have with this album? Well there is only 1. I find myself so entranced by the instrumental parts of the song that the soft almost wispy vocal goes largely unnoticed. It often feels like something is missing because the vocal is fading into the background.
All that said Glass Waves have a great debut on their hands and I can assure the world that if they continue and stay with this project “The Future (for them) is so bright I gotta wear shades”.
Their album is available for free download from Frostclick.com and they are featured on the main screen of Frostwire for the time being, for free on Jamendo, and is also available for free from their website glasswavesmusic.com
This album is Licensed by the Creative Commons License
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Perfect!
wow this is cool!