Glass Eights

After John Roberts became the first american artist on the Dial Records imprint in 2008, it took almost two years to finish his first album. GLASS EIGHTS debuts a sound impeccably curated and delicately enigmatic, John Roberts recreates Real House Music. With its contemplative instrumental weave, GLASS EIGHTS asks broader cultural questions about the psychological function of music as it blurs distinctions between sublimation and expression, escape and confrontation, medication and symptom, repression and reserve. The electric and grand piano, organ, violin, modular synthesizers and eclectic percussion split, shatter and reform, disclosing an aesthetic sensibility which delicately reflects on the eerie stillness of a grey day, the repetition of a single note on a detuned upright piano, a deflated balloon, the white of a funeral arr[hetp]