Glitterer "erer" Out November 21

Glitterer Gazette #38

Hello,

At 10 AM EST, we’re going to be announcing our new LP, erer. It’s our fourth album, our first on Purple Circle, and it will be released in just over a month on November 21. Like all of our records, it was recorded with Arthur Rizk and features art from Andrew Peden. The first single, “Stainless Steel,” is already online, and a music video directed by Robin Zeijlon is available a little early here. Preorders for the LP and CD are up online now at purplecirclerecords.com. And then, once the record is out for a little bit, we’re going to go on tour with Graham Hunt and Prize Horse next February and are playing some other shows, including the already-announced Coachella Valley Music and Arts and Something In The Way festivals. The new shows all are announced in an Andrew Peden-designed flyer below and will quickly be on sale at glitterer.com/tour on Friday, October 17 at 10 AM local time.

I feel like the modern tendency is to make these moments a big dramatic statement. The narrative of artistic creation is always one of overcoming adversity for some reason, like against all odds someone was able to make something. It seems like we tell these stories so that you feel alright giving some of your time to something else. I understand why everyone makes it like your attention is an extremely valuable commodity. It is, kind of. But it becomes mirky when our attention is itself then commodified and used against you.

But now we are in control. We are releasing this record ourselves, and so we are attempting to craft the narrative that we want, and to be frank my goal is to just remove the narrative. Yes, this record was written in and around the time that lead up to Washington, DC’s current occupation (and, unfathomably, a tragically sad list of other generational-defining problems throughout the entire world); yes, this record followed up some substantial touring amidst member changes (Colin is on guitar now and Robin is on the drums); yes, this is a record we are releasing, distributing, and marketing entirely on our own.

And yet, it’s merely a record. Is it our best one yet? Yeah, I think so, but this music is now more than ever being made for those who need it — ourselves included — and not much else. This record is made with the explicit intent to acknowledge and showcase our community rather than ourselves. I’d like to think, in this early morning fog, that this message is not about the urgency of asking for your individual time but rather for showing the importance of our interdependency together. This record, and this band for that matter, exists because of other bands and labels and record stores and venues and promoters and fanzines and photographers and showgoers and music listeners. It’s not any more special than any of those things, but like all of those things it’s part of a bigger picture, in spite of the American infatuation with the self. That’s what this record is about in large part, an examination of the failures of individualism.

So whenever you have the time, if you’d like to listen and be involved, it’s all available now. I’d like to sincerely thank everyone who has supported us along the way making this possible. We all very much appreciate it.

Yours,

Ned

photo by Alex Szantos