Lovesliescrushing - Glissceule

Sample the Album

There are many times when words utterly fail to describe the immensity of certain things that exist in life. Beautiful music albums are just one of them. After all, it isn't so much words that come to mind when you hear those familiar chords, so warm and textural, floating down upon you. No, it is -feeling-. A total envelopment that pins you to the ground while simultaneously blasting you off into the star-specked infinite. It's everything you wish life would be, all in under an hour.

I've always thought that if being in love had a sound, it would be Glissceule by Lovesliescrushing. It's a dream of phantasmal intimacy - the gentle kiss on a lover's neck, the intertwined slumber of passionate exhaustion - all run through by tunnels of blissful light and - floating in all directions - kaleidoscopic auroras painted against the deep black. You don't just listen to Glissceule, you travel into it. It is a massive cloud streaked by swirling guitar layers and windy female vocals. It is a gossamer blanket that, once inside, you will never want to leave.

Glissceule is the sound of a craft slowly perfected over several albums. Lovesliescrushing's mastermind, Scott Cortez, has smoothed out all the grumbling distortion and antique music box chimes that had appeared on previous efforts and turned it into enormous cascading ice sheets. The ice masses are not lifeless and hollow, however. There are shimmering green-grey flames that roil and tumble deep within. Melissa Arpin's unintelligible moans wander atop and through the sheets, like tape-dubbed sirens echoing their way to a burbling rest. Her whispers beckon you to just let go of it all for a while. Let go for 60 or so minutes. Let go of reason, anxiety, doubt - and just -be-.

I can't tell you how many times I've listened to this stunning piece of music. Every time - every single time - I am completely taken by it. After all, it is difficult to get tired of an album brimming with so many surreal and saccharine adventures. "Endless possibilities" doesn't even begin to describe it. The best memories of your life, the greatest fantasies never told, the very border between subconscious nostalgia and psychedelic lush - it is all here in the big blue orb of Glissceule.