One Day at a Time

Glider (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 12, 2006)
• Original Release Date: January 12, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: The Gaia Project
• ASIN: B000FSMOVA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,961 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Shortly After Two

2. Twilight

3. Can You See Them?

4. Over the Ocean

5. The Processional

6. Sequence

7. Dreams Only Go So Far

8. Borderline

9. Stairwell

10. Where Have All Your Dreams Gone

Editorial Reviews

Review

This beautifully orchestrated, melancholy indie music gets inside my head, takes over my mood, and refuses to let go. --Stephen Carradini, Delusions of Adequacy Magazine, May 25, 2006

Product Description

Two years, nine drummers, and ten tracks later the debut full length album One Day At A Time delves into the minds and hearts of listeners. Each track pulls out memories long since forgotten of dreams and days gone by. The heavily delayed and densely reverberated soundscapes are melded with dissonant background noise and are carefully crafted into an emotionally timeless experience. Throwing out all the rules, One Day At A Time delivers an array of sounds with an underlying theme of beauty, happiness, and experiential emotion.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shoegaze is NOT dead!, June 29, 2007

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Robert E. Kelly "I think the Kindle in a wast... - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Day at a Time (Audio CD)

This album creates beautifully layered, shimmering soundscapes. If you enjoy Slowdive, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Cranes, Emerald Down etc, you must own this album. Wonderful. Listen to Where Have All Your Dreams Gone for a real treat.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Weak magnet, November 2, 2007

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Luke Rounda "ThreeStarSmash.com" (Lawrence, KS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Day at a Time (Audio CD)

Oasis and Blur pretty much nailed the coffin shut on bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine many years ago, but shoegaze is still around, albeit way down there on the floor where you aren't looking. Today, there still exists a small minority of music listeners drawn to the idea of simplicity buried in endless complexity-- the idea of guitar music as an symphony rather than just a garage band. An emotional mirror rather than merely a backdrop for third rate poetry. For these people, modern day "nu-gaze" bands like Glider act like a weak magnet to the ear.

The style was always most fun when it attempted to write hooks even while burying them under layers of beautifully disastrous, reverse reverberated, echoing fuzz: Loveless is the most remembered shoegaze record not just for its attention to detail, but because underneath the trimmings it's nothing but jangle pop.

Unfortunately the only track here that truly stands up to repeated listening is the first, "Shortly After Two." And it's also probably the most straightforward. Beginning with a run of glitch-happy, vaguely human sounding sputtering, the song quickly picks up with a rolling bass line and the glitching smoothes out into digital "ghost in the machine"-like wails which perfectly complement the guitar theatrics at play.

The rest of the album, while passable, is rather predictable fare which laps doggedly at the heels of Slowdive at their slowest and most boring, and really quite a letdown after the initial promise of "Shortly After Two."

The song is recommended as a single. You might also like single tracks from Transmission0, The Big Sleep, or Early Day Miners.