The name Ned Russin might not mean much to you yet, but it soon could. He’s the 30-year-old, (mostly) one-man band responsible for Glitterer, whose new record Life Is Not A Lesson arrives as one of 2021’s most unique and deceptively dense alt.rock offerings, meeting somewhere between fuzzy loud’n’quiet dynamics and new wave-curious bedroom electronics. Deceptively so, because the songs only occasionally pass the two-minute mark and no chorus is ever repeated, but the ideas involved are as big as the songs are economic. Ned, you see, is someone who thinks a lot about the world around him. He spends a lot of time in his internal one too, processing what’s going on, searching for his place in the wider scheme of things and asking himself the big questions. He seems like on...
