Samantha Glass

Samantha Glass

Mysteries From The Palomino Skyliner

Not Not Fun

***The precise nature of the sunship / cloudcruiser SS Palomino Skyliner remains unclear, but the crux of its charter appears to facilitate celestial escape in one form or another. Its builder, Beau Devereaux, is perfectly suited to the task, self-describing his druidic harvest trances as “music for movement / leaving Earth.” After years wayfaring through a series of brain-burned flux-psych ensembles, Devereaux put down roots in a solo universe, birthing the Samantha Glass project back in 2010—and with much anticipation and celebration Not Not Fun presents his nine-song, 41-minute voyage / vinyl debut Mysteries from the Palomino Skyliner.  Drawing from a ritual palette of mantric bass riffs, bleached goth keyboard patterns and metronomic church-organ drum-box rhythms, each hypnosis exercise unfolds according to its own unwavering nocturnal wavelength, as if played by a spirit-haunted sleepwalker drugged by dreams. Among the brave mysteries of Mysteries: a subtly reworked version of “Seasonal Seduction,” the Northern Lights free-fall opus from his 2011 cassette, Celestial Night Sky; the stargazing uplift joyride of “Lost Along the Way”; the floating, out-of-body triptych “Return to the Sky,” a Samantha Glass thesis statement of sorts. Great things come to those who wait.

Samantha Glass

Midnight Arrival

Not Not Fun

It’s been a full seasonal cycle since Samantha Glass last laid down his Madison anti-magic into NNF’s tape vaults (2011’s Celestial Night Queen) and, judging from the spectral sound of things, the time was uniquely spent. Holed up at his wax-dripping church organ/wolf tapestry shrine-studio, Ms. Glass (aka Beau Devereaux) dug deep into his candle-lit cross pollination of kraut-pop crop circle keys, art-hesher basement Sabbath bass, and golden dawn vocal mantras, emerging with an evocative EP of occultish hibernation mood-grooves – Midnight Arrival. Later this year will see the unveiling of Sam Glass’ debut vinyl long-player, Mysteries Of The Palomino Skyliner; consider this neophyte training for what is to come. Also, FYI: he’s about to embark on a US tour down to Texas for SXSW 2012 with fellow electronic Midwestern misfit Cuticle; def pay a visit if the roadshow lands in your periphery.