I am currently listening to the Glass Vaults and my God there is this faint echo of Sigur Ros as will as Spiritualized in every tracks. A shoe-gazer band for depressed generation.But the band is able to carve their own identity leaving room for more good things to come. This is the first and I am sure a good start for an introduction.

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JUKBOXR to release Glass EP from New Zealand duo Glass Vaults
Limited edition vinyl available November 1st

Glass Vaults is a Wellington, New Zealand based two-piece who use a mixture of washed textures, ambient and atmospheric sound scapes and an amalgamation of programmed and live drums. Both born in the rural Manawatu, Richard Larsen and Rowan Pierce met at university in Wellington where they began experimenting with music under the name Vaults. Having recently graduated and undergone a name change to Glass Vaults, the pair are using their time to work on writing and shaping their sound under this guise. 

The Glass EP is the pairs’ first release and was recorded on Rowan’s grandmothers farm in March 2010. They then teamed up with friend Bevan Smith (Signer, Over the Atlantic, The Ruby Suns) to produce the recordings into the final release. The Glass EP is an initial marrying of the pairs’ ambient, looped soundscapes fused with minimal lyrical content and structured songwriting. Glass Vaults successfully “deliver a fully realized EP buoyed by the peerless semblance of potential; rare that music can at once sound so wistful, but look forward with such promise” (Jonathan Shedletzky). JUKBOXR Records will release the GlassEP for the first time outside of NZ with a limited vinyl run out November 1st.