Ned Russin has been asking the big questions surrounding our mundane existence since the former Title Fight frontman ushered in his keyboard punk project Glitterer with its first two albums in 2019′s Seeing Through the Blinds and last year’s Life Is Not A Listen. Grief has dealt him a swerve of a quandary and perspective, however. With the listen being dedicated to Riley Gale of Power Trip and Iron Age’s Wade Allison, the project’s latest EP, Fantasy Four, lives in four songs which find Russin in the throes of asking why to the sky and maybe hoping there’s a chance on another timeline that he’ll see his departed friends again. Musically, it cuts beneath the short-form glitch and static core of what’s come before it, and though the downtrodden waves toss his brain around roughly, it also taps into a deeper side within Glitterer’s psyche that will make it interesting to hear where these questions will take the band’s sound next.

Highlights: “Missing”, “Hello”, “Again, Again”

Glitterer’s Fantasy Four is available now on ANTI-.

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