Jordie Lane, New Album
Jordie Lane gets nervous when
it comes to making albums. His 2008 debut, Sleeping
Patterns, was a long time coming, and once he’d briefly toured it, he
literally fled the country. Three hard years then passed before the follow-up,
2011’s sublime Blood Thinner, and
now, five years has passed, a gap in which Lane released an EP (Not Built To Last) and a live set (Live At The Wheaty), but a gap
conspicuous for its lack of an actual album. Until now, as he prepares to
release his third long-player, Glassellland.
True to form though, it didn’t come easily.
“It took a long time to get
in the head space and actively start writing,” he concurs. “But it did finally
feel like we had something new to say, something we were passionate about.” Glassellland is the result of Lane
coming together with collaborator Clare Reynolds, with whom he’s worked before,
and stands as a sort of amalgamation of the DIY of Blood Thinner, and the slickness of Not Built To Last.
“I didn’t want it to be
either of those, I really wanted to get the best of both worlds,” he confirms,
“the naïve makeshift rawness, then the audio quality of the modern digital
recordings.” The results are something Lane needn’t be afraid of – Glassellland marries the two approaches
with aplomb, retaining his Americana foundation, but not being afraid to
embrace a range of aesthetics.
“It’s burst open the bug for
creating new stuff,” he says, a sure-fire sign it won’t be five years before
the next record.
Samuel J. Fell
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