GLYN MAIER - After The Deluge (LP)

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GLYN MAIER - AFTER THE DELUGE

♒︎ recycled random colored vinyl
♒︎ recycled paper jackets
♒︎ silkscreening by Goatmother Industrial
♒︎ edition of 130

“Glyn Maier has spent the last decade or more getting away. Unincorporated Maine and different pockets of mountainous living in North Carolina have comprised the backdrops to his focused isolation. In these remote rural settings, Glyn has been able to filter out the pulsating irregularities of metropolitan paces, instead raising his canine companion Honeycow on long walks through wooded trails and working on a very intentional music practice. Glyn is a softly-spoken, profoundly kind, and sensible man. He does not eat meat. He goes to great lengths to ensure the music he puts out on his label, enmossed, is produced with the most environmentally sustainable packaging options possible. He drinks natural wine and dandelion tea, he spends time with his synthesizers, he looks out into the lush greenery around him. This greenery negotiates generative creative inspiration for him, and acts as a membrane that allows for a holistic version of a reality he wants to carve for himself.

Nature has its own temperaments, though, and it is wholly a folly to romanticize it as a passive entity. Modernity and capitalism intrinsically rely on the alienation of man from nature, and in that gap, mankind antagonizes nature with its penchant for expansionist lust and consumptive compulsions. Humans exacerbate the fickle nature of weather and climate conditions, and nature speaks back to humanity in ways unimaginable to plan for. Against this reality, Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina in 2024, causing the governor to declare a state of emergency. The state was unprepared for the level of damage that the citizens would incur, and the citizenry would find little financial or logistical relief from higher governmental organizations in the United States. Mountain passes were too unsafe to traverse, and it took weeks to months for certain areas to actually recover from the destruction of the storm and its aftereffects.

While the storm was a tragic and devastating ordeal for his community, Glyn took to field recording his locale to work through the experience during a month without power. When we spoke about this record, Glyn told me the five compositions are the result of these field recordings being processed through analog filters, and the distinct resonances that result from that filter use. I find this layered process charming and resolved. With no power, the field recorder became a filter, a mediator, for Maier’s processing of the obliteration surrounding him. When power was restored and the field recordings were processed, these filters brought new, productive life to an awful experience. At times the record is brooding, while at other moments it sounds almost ecclesiastical.

When I think of Glyn, I think about Arvo Pärt. Part of that has to do with the many conversations we have had about the composer over the years. Other reasons permeate, though. The way Pärt distills massive themes of humanity's complex emotional order through minimal and intimate sonic gestures is not unlike Glyn's own ability to distill his surroundings into minimalism. Here, with this record, we see that most explicitly. In his isolation, he crafts again a beautiful album, finding beauty in the face of despair and against the odds of convenience. In this place, Glyn Maier shines his truest colors and garners the substantive forces of his uniquely creative approach to making music. I am so thankful he had some spare batteries before the storm hit.”

Nick Klein, June 2026

recorded, mixed, and mastered by Glyn Maier
artwork by Laura Arteaga Charlton
design by Joe Bastardo