{"id":11808,"date":"2020-06-15T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/?p=11808"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:15:22","slug":"album-review-eliza-niemi-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2020\/06\/15\/album-review-eliza-niemi-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review :: Eliza Niemi :: Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/elizaniemi-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/elizaniemi-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/elizaniemi-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/elizaniemi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/elizaniemi-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/elizaniemi-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/elizaniemi.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>by Zoe McCrea\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contrast of Eliza Niemi\u2019s gentle voice in Mauno always intrigued me. Niemi brought a soothing relief to the unexpected, sometimes chaotic nature of their songs. It\u2019s not an overstatement to say I was slightly heartbroken when Mauno ended, so I was excited to discover I could hear more from her.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The EP <em>Glass<\/em> brought me the same scattered yet intentional feeling of Mauno\u2019s songs, but this time with a bit of subtlety. Right from the beginning you find yourself invested in Niemi\u2019s self-reflective journey. It starts slow with the first track \u201cR1\u201d but each song builds from the last. The instrumentation is soft, almost secondary, but it sticks out when it counts. From the bubbly pop guitar strums to the perfect timing of the weighty cello, every dip and pause brings the lines of Niemi\u2019s writing to life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting on a relationship, Niemi explores how that intimacy has shaped her, but also how she shaped it. This theme carries through the whole EP; the feeling of sorting yourself out, connecting the dots of your identity to a place or a person or a time. Niemi comes to realizations about herself and then contradicts them just as quickly. The final line of the last song \u201cBig Fun Party\u201d articulates that feeling perfectly: \u201cThe worst part of it all is how I thought you taught me beauty or how I\u2019m pretending I don\u2019t still think you did it truly Because I\u2019m just like you, in a way I need to say to stay same: you broke your brain, but I broke my heart just the same.\u201d Right away these songs felt so familiar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With every listen a new line stuck out, or a different modest pop melody lingered in my head.\u00a0 The quick 10 minutes of <em>Glass<\/em> present a snapshot of how it feels to stumble down the path of self-discovery (and hopefully, self-acceptance). Niemi reveals that this doesn\u2019t just happen once, but it\u2019s a choice we keep making: to be \u201cbreakable but strong like glass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Zoe McCrea\u00a0 The contrast of Eliza Niemi\u2019s gentle voice in Mauno always intrigued me. Niemi brought a soothing relief to the unexpected, sometimes chaotic nature of their songs. It\u2019s not an overstatement to say I was slightly heartbroken when Mauno ended, so I was excited to discover I could hear more from her.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11810,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808\/revisions\/11810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}