GluePot - Dutch Interior (2022)

Led by songwriter Fergus Menner, Gluepot’s style of orchestral folk bursts with intelligence. Quite prolific by the standards of the Melbourne scene, their fifth and most recent album, Dutch Interior, is warm and intimate even in its melancholy. Gentle violins and woodwinds accent good-natured guitars, particularly on tracks like “Move To Chicago” (a coy Sufjan Stevens reference). Menner’s vocals sway back and forth, leading to the sparse and utterly perfect bridge where he and vocalist Sophie-Joy King O’Connell take turns painfully uttering the line: “I try all the time.” It’s hard not to picture Menner as some beaten-down academic splayed across a crowded desk of ideas.

Tracklist:
1.01 - GluePot - Mouseatouille Documentary (3:46)
1.02 - GluePot - Spiderlike (2:35)
1.03 - GluePot - Still My Metal Heart (3:46)
1.04 - GluePot - Moth (2:34)
1.05 - GluePot - Move to Chicago (2:45)
1.06 - GluePot - Super (0:44)
1.07 - GluePot - Balthazar (3:11)
1.08 - GluePot - Clothed in Cymbals (3:13)
1.09 - GluePot - New York Song (3:23)
1.10 - GluePot - Garden State (3:46)
1.11 - GluePot - An Oyster Cleft in Two (2:34)
1.12 - GluePot - My Elegy (2:37)
1.13 - GluePot - Spider-Man Trilogy (2:00)
1.14 - GluePot - Our House (2:03)
1.15 - GluePot - View at Night Time (3:12)
1.16 - GluePot - Without Fever (2:15)
1.17 - GluePot - Trust (1:21)
1.18 - GluePot - Slipping Into Weeks (2:23)
1.19 - GluePot - Wounds Like Mouths (3:56)