Gang Gang Dance – "Glass Jar"

Unassuming at first, the entryway is filled with a misty fog that while permeating, never truly dissipates neither shrouds the view too much. You feel as if you’re sort of reaching for a new horizon into space and as if the onward frontier is moving closer. The background chatter is maybe intended to ease the mood a bit – as if to say to the listener, “you’re not exclusively required to consume all of the inflated noise idly by” – but it’s mostly a mere afterthought once everything comes together. There’s a distant discourse of tones delayed in the bells while the percussion and auxiliary continues to embellish with spurts of energy here and there. The wooooosh that supplies the atmosphere when the whistling melody comes bursting through the hedges is then purposely steadied with the trembling, yet potent awakening of the drums. There’s a constant flicker of light that always points straight and while the journey is extensive and undeniably testing, it’s not a race. Ethereal in essence: anticipation, anxiety and above all, a profound synthesizer blare through the discord with the calling of the rush and after it all pounds away around the 6:15 mark it’s all sayonara from here on out.

Follow the mist and haze with an ending four minutes that pulse and vibrate with tension and fervent passion. Gliding on some sort of aircraft, we’re greeted with desirable female vocals that pair up with an almost ‘steel drum-esque’ timbre melody that reigns in on the ending dissension. The drums pound louder and louder, the sounds cascade like a rushing, gushing waterfall – there’s distinct clamor in the music’s identity. It’s forward-thinking merely because it challenges your ears to take in its ten minutes of sheer grandeur but even through the wire, the basis is still a tremendous hook that explodes for a blaring, boisterous ending.

And in the end, I’ve played it so many times throughout the past month or so (attempting to discover within myself whether I seemingly like it or not) that it’s desperately obvious I have some kind of fondness for it. The rest of the album continues to soak in my drenched brain but I thought I’d share this first song since it’s pretty impressive and maybe the rest later, if you really wanna hear about it. – Bryan