This is the fourth album from US blackened post-hardcore band Glassing.
2019’s Spotted Horse caused people to pay attention to what Glassing had to offer, but it was 2021’s Twin Dream that really impressed. From the Other Side of the Mirror offers 42 minutes of new material, and its as good as you would hope for.
Glassing once again deliver unto us their curiously affecting and highly engaging hybrid style. Blending blackened intensity, post-metal sophistication, hardcore fury, and shoegaze delicacy into a charismatic and intelligent feeling-rich whole, Glassing’s music is well-crafted and finely wrought. This new album is the natural and worthy successor to Twin Dream. It takes its predecessor’s strengths and reinforces them, allowing Glassing to spread their wings across these ten new tracks and soar.
From the Other Side of the Mirror is diverse and textured, with a breadth that spans from brutal blackened intensity to soft ethereal introspection. Within this, Glassing shape their dynamic and emotive music into a range of structures and forms, from the devastatingly heavy to the heartachingly fragile. I love Glassing’s ability to take the listener on a multifaceted journey through sound, taking ambient beauty and fiery melodic aggression into their stride as they showcase the expressive soundscapes that they create.
Glassing do what they do best on these new songs and From the Other Side of the Mirror is a triumphant hymn to harsh beauty. At this point Glassing have amassed an enviable discography, and From the Other Side of the Mirror shows that they are still very much in ascendance.