Lazer Guided Melodies

Glasser is the one-woman orchestra of Cameron Mesirow. Her debut album, Ring (True Panther Sounds, 2010) is a singular work. Glasser entered public consciousness in 2009 with her debut EP, Apply, on True Panther, and a UK-only 12” on the Young Turks label. The intimate, luxurious music resonated widely, despite being made by Mesirow, alone and in airplanes and shoe stores, on GarageBand. With Ring, however, Mesirow worked for months with producer Ariel Rechtshaid to re-imagine her musical arrangements, incorporating organic instrumentation like strings, woodwinds, bass, and a wide array of percussion into her once-sparse recordings. Her simple, minimal melodies and rapturous vocals evoke, side by side, the optimism of a woman captivated by creation and travel, as well as the anxiety that accompanies nomadism and change. Of this duality, the New York Times said “these are beautiful songs, both sweet and abstract, deeply felt and anodyne.”