Wet glass is a slippery substance, and so, too, is this second album from North Carolina’s verity den. This home-recorded follow-up to the 2024 debut sidles fluidly between dark, muscular shoegaze, pristine and delicate dream pop and fuzz-hazed space rock. A nod to Yo La Tengo’s slowest, most ambient soundscapes leads into Sonic Youth-style guitar ruckus; the haze of prime Loveless effects storms makes way for 1990s 4AD dream-state reveries.
It’s all denser, better thought-out and more impressive that that strong first album, pieced together as it was out of demos. This one brings touring drummer Reed Benjamin on as a full-time member, giving the songs an increased heft and power. It’s too soon to call Wet Glass…
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