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Built on Glass by Chet Faker (Electronica) (CD, 2014)

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Chet Faker's 2014 album "Built On Glass" is now available on CD. This excellent (EX) digipak edition comes with a booklet insert and features the downtempo electro style that Faker is known for. Released under Opulent Records, this album is a must-have for any music lover's collection. The CD grading is rated as excellent (EX) and the case and inlay conditions are also rated as excellent (EX). This album is in English and was released in 2014. It is a great addition to any fan's collection.

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Product Identifiers

Record Label
Downtown
UPC
3610154972008
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27050148780

Product Key Features

Release Year
2014
Format
CD
Genre
Electronic
Artist
Chet Faker (Electronica)
Release Title
Built on Glass

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Number of Discs
1
Additional information
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