Miserable Chillers - "The Glass"
“The Glass,” the latest single from Brooklyn experimental pop outfit Miserable Chillers, may immediately transport you back to an easier time in your life. It certainly helps that Miguel Gallego, the songwriter behind Miserable Chillers, drew sonic inspiration from “The Astral Observatory," which is a tune that can be heard in the classic Nintendo 64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. That’s certainly nostalgia-inducing for many millennials, and it’s appropriate, as Gallego does some youthful reflecting on this track. On “The Glass,” Gallego ruminates on some formative childhood memories against a dazzling swirl of baroque pop instrumentation. The song really captures the feel of a curious young child exploring and actively pursuing new experiences, as Gallego even adds some ribbiting frogs and glimmering forest sounds to complement the track’s shiny guitar riffs and marimba-sounding percussion.
Gallego elaborated on some of those specific experiences that inspired the song:
I have a few pretty vivid early memories that relate to windows, glass, transparency—looking at dust suspended in rays of light through the blinds of a window in my childhood home, walking with lots of trepidation across a glass walkway in the dinosaur exhibit of the American Museum of Natural History, not trusting that the glass could bare my weight, that I wouldn't fall through, pressing my nose up to a window on a winter day and looking out the at the snow and the daylight and feeling the chill on my nose.
“The Glass” will appear on Miserable Chillers forthcoming album Audience of Summer. You can pre-order the album on limited edition cassette via Bandcamp. Follow Miserable Chiller on Instagram and like them on Facebook.
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