Ears Wide Open: Glaare

Kevin Bronson on January 17th, 2018

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Glaare make music for people who don’t trust sunlight. The L.A. post-punk/darkwave trio’s album “To Deaf and Day” hovers in the penumbra between melancholy and hope, at times trance-like and at others staring whatever lies in the future resolutely in the eye. The album is the work of Rachael Pierce, Cameron Carlin (Black Mare) and Brandon Pierce (ex-Ancestors), with Rachael Pierce’s vocals buried, as if in a shallow grave, amid the band’s remarkably nuanced instrumentation and arrangements. The insistent “Desiree” is “To Deaf and Day’s” zenith, but even when the trio is more focused on creating soundscapes, the eight-song collection is starkly beautiful, dark colors rendered in delicate brushstrokes rather than monolithic black.

The album is available via Dune Altar and Bandcamp.

||| Stream: “Desiree”