"Deep Cut" by Glisten Trick
Glisten Trick is a project led by Glasán Ghost featuring collaborators from cult drone, neo-psych and garage acts from the US and UK. The band’s debut single “Deep Cut” is a slow and gradual burner. Girded with the solid sparseness characteristic of early Low, the song unfurls with delicate lonesome guitar reminiscent of the Velvet Underground. It grows on me with each listen. My late-90s college radio memory short circuits to some of the more calm creations on the obscure Bill Ding Trust In God, But Tie Up Your Camel (1997, Hefty Records).
“Deep Cut” comes from Glisten Trick’s forthcoming EP titled Death Cult Rainbows, scheduled for release 15 March 2026 via the band’s own imprint, Underland Records. A delicately lonesome mood comes through on the six tunes of the EP, with interesting and unexpected accoutrements. Songs like “No Comedown” and the EP’s title track “Death Cult Rainbows” ring with the faintest breath of Ian McCulloch and bits of effected guitar as at the dawn of Depeche Mode’s Violator-era. Ultimately Glisten Trick sounds beautiful defying genres.