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Built on Glass
Electronic · 2014 · 12 tracks · 51m

Built on Glass

Chet Faker

Restraint. Smoky baritone vocals meet dusty drum machines and late-night saxophone for a cohesive, minimalist soul experience.

April 11, 2014 · [pias]

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A sophisticated, late-night meditation on solitude wrapped in warm, dusty electronic textures.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 51m
01
Release Your Problems
3:13
02
Talk Is Cheap
3:38
03
No Advice (airport version)
1:45
04
Melt
4:11
05
Gold
4:45
06
To Me
5:15
07
/
0:19
08
Blush
4:47
09
1998
6:05
10
Cigarettes & Loneliness
7:52
11
Lesson in Patience
5:46
12
Dead Body
3:54
Moments Worth Listening For
The way the saxophone lazily drifts into the mix on Talk Is Cheap, feeling like a midnight street corner.
The rhythmic clicking and found-sound percussion that anchors the groove of Gold.
The sprawling, nearly eight-minute descent into melancholy during Cigarettes & Loneliness.
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Built on Glass sound next to the rest of Chet Faker's catalogue?

Contemplative+1.0σ

Contemplative saturates this record a touch more than the artist's norm.

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