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glint

by Stolen Jars

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    25% of the money made by this EP will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (https://srlp.org/) which "works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence."
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1.
Eliot 04:15 video
Let’s go back to our snow, there some new feet fall Give me my hard hands, my code, we’ll practice letting them go Letting them go Letting them go Letting them go But what’s mine are paired eyes in the dark of a car, No, it’s the soft light, the cold tiles, can I keep things so small? Or should I call out in some new voice that echoes it all? Now if I grow old - echoes would Find me way gone Find my place some Long lost day Where I don’t know me But if I Keep time in tones Hold some day close Just one day to Lead my way These lines might keep me My years breathe slow Falling, calm, cold, in sunlight But in night my face will be old Some Silver Ghost Wasted light, land will leave my age Hold this frame, never face away Wasted light, never face away Now if I grow old - echoes would Find me way gone Find my place some Long lost day Where I don’t know me
2.
Gold Age 02:45 video
This Fall is our last day Hours slur my tones, as leaves start to go But I’m not that fawn you saved Caught in the past games of a gold age No, I’m not a follower anymore Leave me my parts, leave me my home and I’ll be one Or am I just this colder ache Caught in the past days Of some new mistake Five shores I let pass away, scars in my bed they, hold me from miles away, hold me just once today I lost my own name Caught in some fragile aims of a calling am I calling am I calling til I’m sold am I sold This Fall is our last day Hours slur my tones, as leaves start to go
3.
Nights go again in my mind –– Will you hold my face in your eyes Father’s stark awareness of time Means this new age is not mine Can we hold on days at a time old places safe in your eyes remember, say that you’re fine remember, say that you’re fine Eight-hundred-sixty days of our lives Eight-hundred-sixty days we’re alike We were long New York boys and I Kept our love, small safe silver dimes Can we hold one age at a time keep places awake in your mind remember, say that your fine remember, say that your fine We were 18, then 35 You were able then so was I Drove minutes in cold road light Till you’d found new love, so had I Can we hold one space at a time old places safe in your mind remember, stay you and I remember, stay you and I I’ve got your records on in my head Each note reflects, my skull bends and bends Your melody was so like me then No competition for my close friend Can we hold one age at a time Keep places awake in your mind remember, say that your fine remember, say that your fine I know your face more than I know mine We’re the same, but now who am I? We were long New York boys can time Hold our love, kept safe in one mind Please just hold my place, say your fine Keep these worn out moments of light remember, stay you and I remember, stay you and I Well, scars say this mind isn’t gone yet And I won’t give thought to what things we lack So give me light, give me your light x4 If New York’s long lost to a new page Then we can find boyhood in old age So give me light... But I still know each word, every look you gave How could I explain all of those days?
4.
You say: John I’ve given you my whole life, but now every loved light is leaving just to pass by No I’m not that old, I’ve got time to be alone, So please don’t call my name this first of long nights Now thirty years have gone away, this home we made, each footstep paved with Christmas games and sons we’ll separate how will I find myself when you’re away? start again or is this life a waste? this ghost just stares at me in the same way I’m still alive this room’s filled with warm light It will find it will find it will find me Mind’s singed mesh of wire –– the first sign of new life I will find I will find I will find me And I’ll make new noise find calm for our daughter It will find it will find it will find me Alone isn’t lost alone I’m with others I will find I will find I will find me
5.
Let’s stay caught in Hope’s former tides till i’m lost  letting go, getting older afterlight after light (6) This love's past silver ghosts on our shoulders but I'll last Fall will come, give another afterlight after light (6) and every night if I can’t wake new fires i’ll be following lost days and if I can’t leave loves behind i’ll be following lost days and i’ll be following lost days and i’ll be following lost days and i’ll be following lost days no lost days no lost days some afterlight after light (6)

about

Each track on glint, Stolen Jars' visual EP, starts with an impossibly small sound – a keyboard briefly glimmering in warm light, a finger sliding down the neck of a guitar, a chord strummed with just enough space in between the strings that each note sounds alone.

These are the small spaces from which Cody Fitzgerald starts. Fitzgerald, the group's songwriter and center of gravity, started writing as Stolen Jars in 2011, and in its evolution his small and intricate introductions have grown into full and powerful statements. glint finds beauty in brief moments of reflection, elongating them with deft chamber orchestration, sorrowfully penned lyrics, and vocal performances from Fitzgerald and collaborator Molly Grund that guide each track from tension to reconciliation and back again.

Following the success of 2015's sophomore LP Kept – NPR's Bob Boilen named Stolen Jars as one of his top ten bands to watch at CMJ, the Deli Magazine featured the band on the cover of its CMJ issue, Stereogum and Consequence of Sound premiered the album's singles, and the Village Voice ran a feature on the the band's songwriting practice – Fitzgerald sees glint as a lens for his collaborative process. A constellation of musicians orbits the band – vocalist Molly Grund, drummer Matt Marsico, guitarists Connor McGuigan and Peter Enriquez, and keyboard players Grant Meyer and Max Finkelstein make contributions to Stolen Jars and push the band's energy to its outer edges during live shows.

glint, thematically unified along lines of loss, reflection, and renewal, breaks apart into different visual interpretations. Each track on the EP plays alongside a composition from different video artists, animators, choreographers, and directors – Evelyn Ross for "Eliot," Jenelle Pearring and Nora Alami for "Gold Age," Abie Sidell and Felix Handte for "Long New York," Marissa Goldman and Blaine Dunkley for "Gone Away," and Henry Chaisson for "Afterlight."

Alongside his work with Stolen Jars, Fitzgerald has a publishing deal with SONGS Music Publishing and a burgeoning film scoring career, including credits on feature films The Rewrite and Hard Sell, and Open 24 Hours, a short film that premiered at Cannes in 2015. Music from Stolen Jars has also appeared in film (How To Be Single) and TV spots (Apple's "Do It All" iPad commercial).

As Stolen Jars moves forward, it becomes both more frenetic and more precise. Small sounds become larger, Fitzgerald's compositions grow ever-more intricate, and different collaborators bend the project in new directions. glint may hone in on little moments, but Stolen Jars' future is very big.

credits

released April 7, 2017

Music and Lyrics written by Cody Fitzgerald
Vocal melodies co-written by Molly Grund

Cody Fitzgerald - Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Keys, Organ, etc.
Molly Grund - Vocals
Akshaya Avril-Tucker - Cello
Erin Reifler - Trombone
Zach Levine - Trumpet
Natasha Bluth - Flute
Katie Johnson - Clarinet
Nico Sedivy - Clarinet

Recorded and produced by Cody Fitzgerald
Mixed by Eli Crews at Ham Radio Hobby Room, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

Album Art by Molly Grund

Video Credits:
Eliot:
Directed and Animated by Evelyn Jane Ross

Gold Age:
Directed by Jenelle Pearing
Choreography/Dance by Nora Alami
Production Management by Emma Bregman

Long New York:
Directed by Abie Sidell
Cinematography by Felix Handte

Gone Away:
Directed by Marissa Goldman
Cinematography by Blaine Dunkley

Afterlight:
Directed by Henry Chaisson
Cinematography by Cole Moore
Wardrobe by Katharina Windemuth
Produced by Supreeti Sharma

Thank you to Molly Grund, Connor McGuigan, Matt Marsico, Grant Meyer, Peter Enriquez, and Max Finkelstein for being an essential and wonderful part of this thing with me and for transforming this music live and adding so much to it as it is created, thank you to Rachel Nigro, James Rainis, and Dylan Farrell for being the most helpful humans, thank you to Tristan Rodman, Clyde Lawrence, Sam Sander Effron, Patrick Orenstein, AJ Mezoff, and John Ribbans for playing some of these songs live with me for the first time ever, thank you to everyone at Missing Piece Group for the support, thank you to everyone who played on this thing, made videos for this thing (seriously oh my god such beautiful and unreal work), and who generally helped to make this thing happen, thank you to everyone who is listening to it now (!), and finally thank you to my family and my friends who make this whole making music thing worthwhile

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