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Chet Faker|Built on Glass

Built on Glass

Chet Faker

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Seeing as how his come-up number was a trip-hop cover of "No Diggity" and his name is a Kurt Vile-like play on jazz great Chet Baker, Australian electronica producer Nick Murphy aka Chet Faker arrives with two overly clever strikes against him, at least on the surface. Tricky thing is, those who dig into that Blackstreet cover finds themselves enveloped in a warm, soulful slinker of the highest order, but the even better news is that Built on Glass is a rich debut, falling between the two hypotheticals of a James Blake record inspired by joy or a Beck album that should be filed under the category of "earnest." The lyrics offer a lazy fascination with subjects like love, loss, and afternoons off, while swaying tempos support sounds like bubbling house music, jazzy, Joe Pass-like guitar passages, and Faker's warm vocals, which are as if Eddie Vedder were born a slow soul man. The great "Talk Is Cheap" is broken beat house with a wonderful Boz Scaggs feel, while "Cigarettes & Loneliness" is a compositional triumph with interwoven guitars and Faker's lovelorn singing holding the listener's hand as a whirling dervish develops on a rainy Sunday. The volume is only pumped up to a Derrick May or Carl Craig level as highlight "1998" bubbles with that Detroit techno feel, and yet sticking with subdued suits the artist at this point. Built on Glass isn't so much limited as it is a wonderful mood piece, so think calm and cool with purpose, and then get hip to the restrained and resonating sound of Faker.

© David Jeffries /TiVo

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1
Release Your Problems
00:03:13

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

2
Talk Is Cheap
00:03:38

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

3
No Advice (Airport Version)
00:01:45

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

4
Melt
00:04:11

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

5
Gold
00:04:45

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

6
To Me
00:05:15

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

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/
00:00:19

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

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Blush
00:04:47

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

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1998
00:06:05

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

10
Cigarettes & Loneliness
00:07:52

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

11
Lesson in Patience
00:05:46

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

12
Dead Body
00:03:54

Chet Faker, MainArtist - Nick Murphy, Composer

2014 Future Classic 2014 Future Classic

Album review

Seeing as how his come-up number was a trip-hop cover of "No Diggity" and his name is a Kurt Vile-like play on jazz great Chet Baker, Australian electronica producer Nick Murphy aka Chet Faker arrives with two overly clever strikes against him, at least on the surface. Tricky thing is, those who dig into that Blackstreet cover finds themselves enveloped in a warm, soulful slinker of the highest order, but the even better news is that Built on Glass is a rich debut, falling between the two hypotheticals of a James Blake record inspired by joy or a Beck album that should be filed under the category of "earnest." The lyrics offer a lazy fascination with subjects like love, loss, and afternoons off, while swaying tempos support sounds like bubbling house music, jazzy, Joe Pass-like guitar passages, and Faker's warm vocals, which are as if Eddie Vedder were born a slow soul man. The great "Talk Is Cheap" is broken beat house with a wonderful Boz Scaggs feel, while "Cigarettes & Loneliness" is a compositional triumph with interwoven guitars and Faker's lovelorn singing holding the listener's hand as a whirling dervish develops on a rainy Sunday. The volume is only pumped up to a Derrick May or Carl Craig level as highlight "1998" bubbles with that Detroit techno feel, and yet sticking with subdued suits the artist at this point. Built on Glass isn't so much limited as it is a wonderful mood piece, so think calm and cool with purpose, and then get hip to the restrained and resonating sound of Faker.

© David Jeffries /TiVo

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