Nothing Hurts Forever, by glacis & Gavin Miller

Nothing Hurts Forever

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1.	She Yawns As Well 02:41	info	buy track
2.	Even When There's Clouds There Isn't Always Rain 04:23		buy track
3.	My Warm Heart It Will Soon Go Home 01:51		buy track
4.	All My Questions Still Ask For Answers 02:59		buy track
5.	As The Sea Around You Sings 06:21		buy track
6.	Some Stay Hidden While Some Get Found 04:15		buy track
7.	There's A Tunnel To Crawl Through 02:18		buy track
8.	As The Hours Slow Down 03:53		buy track
9.	A Silent Colour Film Within My Head 05:33		buy track
10.	To Be Candlelit With You 02:59		buy track

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Glacis is Euan Millar-McMeeken, originally from Dundee but currently residing in London after a recent move South. Gavin Miller is an artist from Bradford, a city tucked away in the shadow of Leeds and he also records as Worriedaboutsatan. This British duo have released solo records through labels such as Lost Tribe Sound, Sound In Silence, Fluid Audio, Facture and Shimmering Moods to name but a few and in ‘Nothing Hurts Forever’ they have undertaken an exercise of collaboration, to sensitively compliment one another’s sound.

The result is a raw and intimate set of ten pieces for piano, strings, guitar and drone, which stop just short of what you might call modern classical music. Euan’s piano compositions retain an authentic character which deliberately documents the original recording environment, as marks are left on this album by creaking chairs, scraping floors and a family environment. Gavin’s strings and guitar adornments add a richness to these, emphasising texture and heightening a melancholic mood.

‘Nothing Hurts Forever’ is free from a clear concept, as Euan wrestled with homesickness having moved to England and was looking for a creative outlet in which to channel his feelings, or perhaps escape them. He was struck one day whilst listening to Frightened Rabbit, whose lead singer Scott Hutchinson had passed away in 2018. He recalled words that were said back then: ‘nothing hurts forever’. He remembered thinking at the time of Scott’s death that this wasn’t always true, as some things do in fact hurt forever. Perhaps this statement is more useful, to provide reassurance during a period of discomfort or unease. Adapting to changes, such as moving home or changing jobs for example. For bigger things, perhaps the hurt can lessen or fade over time or perhaps it never truly goes. From this point, the record felt like a follow-on to the previous Glacis album ‘The World Is A Little Lonelier Without You’, a tribute to his father.

With the adaptation and sensitive expansion of Euan’s piano environments, Gavin has retained all of the personal character which is so important to his peer. Yet the stories are given an extra dimension and something so personal becoming a collaboration opens this out to be a space for our own interpretation as the moods and track titles provide food for thought.

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“While the first part of the set is decisively oriented towards fluid chamber solutions (above all, the florilege for piano and strings of "Even When There's Clouds, There Isn't Aways Rain"), in the second the piano notes tend to become more sparse and solemn, immersed in a subdued and at times grainy ambience, which envelops them in a penumbra of welcoming density.” Music Won’t Save You - ALBUM OF THE WEEK

“The result is a raw and intimate set of ten pieces for piano, strings, guitar and drone, which stop just short of what you might call modern classical music. Euan’s piano compositions retain an authentic character which deliberately documents the original recording environment, as marks are left on this album by creaking chairs, scraping floors and a family environment. Gavin’s strings and guitar adornments add a richness to these, emphasising texture and heightening a melancholic mood.” Wall Of Ambient

“…the ten compositions that structure “Nothing Hurts Forever” unfold with visceral coherence as if in spite of everything they follow a clear vision, a shared feeling that acts as a guide to define vivid resonant drifts, pervaded by bittersweet melancholy.” So What

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released October 31, 2020

Written and produced by Euan Alexander Millar McMeeken and Gavin Miller
Strings by Sophie
Mastered by Gavin Miller
Photography by Ali Safavi
Packaging Design by Harry Towell

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