We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The World Is A Little Lonelier Without You

by glacis

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    12" heavy weight black vinyl.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The World Is A Little Lonelier Without You via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 250 

      £5 GBP or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 23 glacis releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Borders: Perseverance, What Is Now Will Soon Be Past, Five More, Interpretations, Distances, Wake, Echo, Fall, and 15 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      £35.25 GBP or more (25% OFF)

     

1.
16 March 04:08
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
23 March 05:24

about

My dad died on 16 March 2011. He'd battled emphysema for years. After complications caused by a bout of pneumonia he finally succumbed. In the aftermath of these events I turned to my piano for solace and escape. The resulting record attempts to address the emotions experienced during the 7 days between his death and funeral. In collaboration with Ed Hamilton, who brilliantly tapped in to my experience and emotion, and with contributions from Christoph Berg, this record is about, and in memory of, my dad.

This album was originally released on Facture Records as a limited CD run. Now, re-mastered and funded through Kickstarter it is to be re-released on 12" heavy weight vinyl.

Press

"All in all, The World Is A Little Lonelier Without You is a lovely tribute, a testimony that is more torch than eulogy" - A Closer Listen

"The sense of loss here is palpable, but ultimately the light of healing seeps by the gentle final coda. A truly lovely record." - Stationary Travels

"There are so many pianist minimalism albums. Few - indeed, very few - possess the intensity and depth of "The World Is A Little Lonelier Without You". " - Music Won't Save You

"...a work of extraordinary intensity" - SoWhat

“Conceived as a tribute to the artist’s father who passed away in 2011, Hamilton works alongside friend Ed Hamilton to create these mournful pieces. Millar-McMeeken’s piano is augmented by grainy ambiences and spectral plumes of reverb to create something reminiscent of Ryuichi Sakamoto, or a more private take on the glacial post-rock of Explosions In The Sky.” Norman Records

“ It’s utterly beautiful. The chords are played with the expected heaviness, while drones both crystalline and windswept play through the record in the vein of A Winged Victory for the Sullen. Percussion appears, in places, with the soft, empathetic touch of a Dirty Three record, brushing its way past the arrangements of “A Prayer From the Heart Not the Lips” as if to give the song something trustworthy to lean back on. With string arrangements from Christoph Berg, these arrangements really shine, becoming sort of communally compassionate mournings that give the isolated, lonely sounds something to relate to.” Norman Records

credits

released September 8, 2017

glacis is Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken with Ed Hamilton

All pieces written and performed by Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken and Ed Hamilton

Violins on tracks 1, 5 & 7 performed and arranged by Christoph Berg

Violins on track 6 performed by Christoph Berg, arranged by Ed Hamilton

Piano recordings by Ana Roman and Alex Galler at the University of Edinburgh

Produced and mixed by Ed Hamilton

Mastered by James Plotkin

Cover art by Spencer Tweedy
All other art by Todd Umhoefer

Writing by Ali Millar

Thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

glacis London, UK

glacis is a Scottish composer.

contact / help

Contact glacis

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like glacis, you may also like: