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ARTIST
TITLE
wet glass
FORMAT
LP
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CATALOG #
AMI 065LP
AMI 065LP
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RELEASE DATE
10/24/2025
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"Amish Records is excited to announce wet glass, the stately sophomore album from Carrboro, NC-based Verity Den. This eagerly awaited new record follows their 2024 debut, which was built from early demo recordings and quickly attracted a passionate following despite the raw origins. The energy and innovative sound of that album earned praise for its originality and musicianship. Sun13 Music praised the debut as 'a scuzzy, blissed-out torrent of sound that stands completely on its own two feet.' Heathen Disco, naming it 2024's Album of The Year, wrote, 'this thing is just perfect, patient, and pretty revelatory for any band playing in this puddle decades after the fact, and the little-recognized high card they're playing with is texture -- reminds that the best bands don't fall into a stylistic trap so much they rebuild the trap altogether, and let others do the falling.' The new album was self-recorded and self-produced and is built upon the same foundational elements as their first album, noise, texture, ambience and simple songcraft, but wet glass has a wider ranging landscape. A bigger frame brings a bigger picture, but fear not, Verity Den has not forgotten what we've come to love about their sound. Just because it's groomed doesn't mean it's 'clear.' It's 2025, clarity is downright embarrassing and Verity Den has expertly mastered the skill of translating the current mind-fuck zeitgeist into a sonic snapshot. They are equally inner-political journalists as they are musicians. Casey Proctor, Trevor Reece, Mike Wallace, and Reed Benjamin's musical simpatico is natural. wet glass flows between multiple zones including, but not limited to, the melodic Yo La Tengo 'Painful' era drive of 'wet glass' and 'green drag,' the loopy Flying Saucer Attack haze of 'unsolved mystery' and 'highway fifty four' or the loner neo-Fred Neil devotional 'to trees.' Impressionistic lyrics, effective songs and jams that sound warm and familiar. The make-up of wet glass is dense, yet simply beautiful. Unintentionally cinematic. Verity Den conjure a sound that soaks in like an Epsom salt bath after a long day of being pummeled by your 9 to 5. SWEET RELIEF." --David Kenneth Nance
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