George Glass is an interesting group from Los Angeles to say the least and are releasing their third EP Welcome Home later this summer. As a whole the album has a retro summer vibe, very laid back and casual. However they take influence from many sources of the last few decades and switch around styles track to track that it’s a bit difficult to pin point when exactly they’re coming from, leaving the listener to follow along in a journey through an ambiguous nostalgic past.

Welcome Home starts out with the retro casual rock “Operative Me”, not quite what I expected after just seeing the album art. It then follows along with the folk “Don’t Try” and “Metro.” Just when you think you’ve got a handle of what the rest of the EP will be, it switches tone with “Future Former” by completely dropping the folksiness and replacing it with a stronger rock. Then George Glass switches again to the slower lullaby “LAM” keeping you on your toes. The rest of the album continues back and forth between the slower “One Liner,” “Patchwork Girl,” “Spell”, and the faster energetic “Automat 23,” “Markie Post,” and “AM Radio.”

Each track sounds completely different from one another really – only unified by the friendly and casual vocals of Nicholas Ceglio. Most of the sounds are relatively short with the exception of “Patchwork Girl,” and makes a good soundtrack for lying out in the sun.

Welcome Home will be released August 6. You can preorder it now off their Facebook page.

George Glass is on Facebook and bandcamp. You can stream/download their single “AM Radio” below:

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