Glasser gives listeners something to watch
Glasser’s Cameron Mesirow was one of the exceptions at the recent South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. Unlike many “must-see” bands, she only performed twice during the five-day festival; some bands played seven or eight times as many gigs.
“I refuse to be that kind of band,” Mesirow says with a laugh. “Seventeen shows in five days? I bet 16 of those shows didn’t matter to them.”
Mesirow treats each of her shows as an event, with a visual panache to match her vocal abilities and unconventional yet highly melodic songs. She opened her first show in Austin with a rapturous a cappella version of a traditional Irish ballad, “Let No Man Steal Your Thyme,” then dove into the layered, swirling avant-pop of her hypnotic 2010 debut album, “Ring” (True Panther Sounds). She matched the swooning arrangements with shaman-like twitching and dancing in a layered hoop dress. It was simple but mesmerizing theater, the kind of showmanship that frankly not enough pop concerts have.
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