"The sparse lyrics throughout wet glass leave room for mutability. It's a record of few words, tumbling through the dreamlike arrangements and reshaped by their melodies. Penultimate track "to trees" sounds raw and improvisational, almost unfinished. It leaves Proctor's voice unadorned with just a meandering acoustic guitar and ambient background hum: "You belong to trees/Deep below two trees." The single repeated line of "unsolved mystery" is at first unintelligible under a humming drone,"
"fuzzy ticking, and softly rumbling keys until it floats to the surface like a message in a bottle at the track's conclusion: "You've got it now," Proctor sings, perhaps a reference to one of Verity Den's biggest influences, Yo La Tengo. You can hear the Hoboken band's DNA in the dusky opener "vacant lot," with its storm of distortion; and in the title track that follows, its thick, flinty guitar riffs feel like a fleece blanket and the hissing and clanging of a radiator"
Songs feature sparse lyrics that leave space for mutability and are reshaped by melodies. Penultimate track "to trees" sounds raw and improvisational, leaving Proctor's voice unadorned with meandering acoustic guitar and ambient hum. A repeated line in "unsolved mystery" emerges from humming drone, fuzzy ticking, and rumbling keys into the sung phrase "You've got it now," nodding to Yo La Tengo. The dusky opener "vacant lot" carries stormy distortion while the title track pairs thick, flinty guitar riffs with radiator hisses. Verity Den favors lucid, dreamlike jams where bright basslines and tinny drums push against whisper-shouted observations, and "green drag" offers sunlit jangle-pop.
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