Tracklist
1 | If Anything | |
2 | Icing | |
3 | Cryptomnesia | |
4 | Trelawny Waters | |
5 | Timing | |
6 | Senseless | |
7 | Boozy | |
8 | Platoon | |
9 | Green Elephants Freestyle | |
10 | Some Other Thing | |
11 | On Formulation | |
12 | No More Left Like It's Death |
Nocturnal free-associating, icicle beats and Blunt-ed shadowiness make for a captivating arrival statement from Hackney’s newest auteur.
John Glacier says she chose her stage name because she's "icy". But, like her pitch-shifted vocal and deadpan stare, that dissembling coldness is shattered by the blistering reality of her lyrics.
Everything she writes, in her punk-poet electronic rap songs, is viscerally vulnerable. Her upcoming debut album, produced with fellow London-born, LA-based producer Vegyn, is what she calls a "selfish" record, documenting "how I feel, what I'm going through, and where I want to go in my life." But like everything John touches, even this answer shapeshifts, revealing itself to be something unexpected by the time she's finished speaking.
SHILOH is a document of healing and evolution that John created over the course of a year. Each track is a reflection of a moment, captured fleetingly, showcasing a different face of John Glacier. "The songs are all completely different spaces," she notes, but the common theme of the album is reflection, and processing – like chipping away at ice.”