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The Idiot

by Glass Roots

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Reds Blue 03:46
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Panther Loud 03:29
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Basic Curses 03:21
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Name for Two 01:16
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Flag State 02:54
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Hang for Now 03:28
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Stucco-lath 01:27
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Beaconstown 03:25
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Mau III 03:12
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The Nudge 03:02
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Follwing up on their 2018 album "Adelaide Ultraworld", UK duo Glass Roots (Suncastle & Paris Texas) returns to Triplicate Records for their sprawling opus "The Idiot".

~Michael Southard - Triplicate Records

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Glass Roots - The Idiot

Bubbling up from the murky waters below, this sprawling and inventive side-project of Suncastle’s George Evans and Kristofer Thomas aka Paris Texas provides an amazing array of twists and turns. ‘The Idiot’ starts off with a mysterious haze which slowly rises to the surface as ‘Reds Blue’ unfolds and sets the pace for what will come. This 20-song electronic project, experimental in so many ways, still holds a melodic core throughout, that offers a delightful mix of wonderfully conceived and fleshed out sonic concepts. ‘Panther Loud’ enters with a jagged beat and soon overtakes with melancholy melodies and subtly edgy rhythms. The wholly experimental ‘Cease & Desist’, much like many of the other shorter tracks, are surrounded the more melodic fare…vignettes that loom and lurk. Each song is its own dusty gem that emerges in hugely clever treatments. This album works extremely well as a musical gestalt, and the sequencing of the tracks have been thought out with finesse, making it one of those albums that begs to be listened to in its entirety.

The chilly refinement of the exquisitely blurry, ‘Basic Curses’, invokes cold reveries as it carries us to the warbled fever dream of ‘Name For Two’. There is a strange mysticism encapsulated in their productions, with each successive track drawing from what feels like the attempt to offer ever-building additions to their musical palette. Opening with some lovely congas, ‘Elevator Policy’ continues the search for that next electronic hook with transcendent grace. ‘Daily Male’ brings us minimalistic cascading tones that open up to the steady beat-laden, ‘Flat State’, with its aching electro-synth haze. Certain tracks revel in the glory of carefully manipulated percussive strategies…all delightful, especially when placed side by side with ideas that sound as they were excavated from the ruins of an early-'70s computer lab.

The saturated beat of ‘Lets Get Into a Fight’ makes its way into the evocative and mournful, ‘Hang For Now’, an excursion of deep and dark colors, of languid memories. ’Spirochaetales’ offers a deeper, brooding menace that doesn’t necessarily take you back to a particular time so much as it takes you to some alternate, cryptic dimension. ’Stucco-lath’ feeds us more spectral machine music as ‘Beaconstown’ edges further into the underground world of experimental techno. ‘Little Island’ slowly steers us toward the future and we discover ‘Mau III’ looming on the horizon which provides more studies into electro rhythms and creative sound design intricacies.

‘The Nudge’, with its unsettled low end that wobbles and whirls encompasses a multitude of intriguing subtleties. Along with interesting bursts of higher frequency jabs, there is balanced nature to this journey. Another quick idea floats by with ‘Merchant of Menace’ as ‘Quizmaster General slowly evolves with it’s foggy gloom, enveloping all it touches. ‘Now Everybody’, brings us to the end of things, with its slow, evenly paced notes and a graceful tea-kettlesque synth moan that truly has an otherworldly cadence. The chilly refinements on this album make ‘The Idiot’ a true intellectual pleasure. A masterfully crafted work that underscores that this duo exists in their own world

~Belial Pelegrim

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released June 26, 2020

Written and produced by George Evans and Kristofer Thomas
Mastered by Michael Southard
Artwork by Kristofer Thomas
Additional design elements by Bryan Kraft

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