Recommended Album: Glitterer – ‘Rationale’

Ned Russin is searching for something that keeps himself from disappearing. That’s been the common thread between each and every Glitterer album since Title Fight went away. The songs he’s amassed across three full-length albums and two EPs have oft been grafted from grungy guitar riffs, synthesizers, drum machines, and your usual suspects of anything a bedroom studio might fit while still sounding bigger than the whole house itself. While Russin continues to seek out some of life’s biggest answers through his obtuse yet impressionistic lyricism, Rationale at least finds a resolve to the band’s sound four albums in resulting in their most fully charged listed to date. The keyword being “band,” as he’s now ingrained his live band of guitarist Connor Morin, keyboard Nicole Dao, and drummer Jonas Farah properly into Glitterer’s rigid sparks. The 12 songs that make up the listen hardly ever top two-and-a-half-minutes in length, but the fuller body and blood pumping behind them blister emotions into your skin to a greater degree. With the added limbs, the hooks grab more muscularly and everything that’s plugged into Glitterer’s circulatory system is a headrush. “Because I want to be invisible / But I can’t stay that way forever,” Russin sings on the album highlight and opener, “I Want to Be Invisible”. He knows the reality of his fate better than ever here and he’s not fighting it, even if he’s still figuring the rest out. After years of fielding the same questions about the future of Title Fight and being haunted by his ghosts, Rationale is Russin’s way of making Glitterer take a major step away those haunts by leaping into the unknown. They’ve become more real than ever.

Highlights: “I Want To Be Invisible”, “Plastic” “Can’t Feel Anything”

Glitterer’s Rationale is available now on ANTI- Records.