New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The Montclair, NJ-based group Stolen Jars has released the fifth and final music video from their new EP, glint. The video for the song "Gone Away" is currently streaming via ThrdCoast who writes that it depicts "the moments when familiar places become abruptly foreign in the wake of emotional upheaval." Stolen Jars is currently preparing for their recently announced summer tour - see below for a full list of dates.
Each track on glint plays alongside a composition from different video artists, animators, choreographers, and directors to create a "Visual EP" experience - 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." The project has been covered by Impose, Ad Hoc, Brightest Young Things and others.
Describing the concept behind glint, Stolen Jars songwriter and band leader Cody Fitzgerald writes, "A glint is a shimmering reflection of light and, at the end of the day, that is really what this EP is, a small 16-minute moment of reflection. It is 5 songs centered around themes of loss and renewal, songs about finding hints of memory in the present and trying to keep sight of them just long enough to let them go." The 5-track record first premiered via an exclusive stream with Paste Magazine. The EP is available for download HERE.
25% of all sales of the EP will benefit The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a legal aid organization that serves low-income or people of color who are transgender, intersex and/or gender non-conforming. Cody Fitzgerald writes, "In the current political climate it is important to us that we do whatever we can to help protect those who are most targeted and most vulnerable. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is a local organization that seeks to do just that, to protect and fight for transgender rights, particularly in relation to immigration issues and prison justice, areas which seem particularly salient to us right now."
Cody Fitzgerald, the group's songwriter and center of gravity, started writing as Stolen Jars in 2011. Fitzgerald's talents evolved within the nascent Montclair, NJ music scene which has produced notable indie rising stars such as Pinegrove, Forth Wanderers, and Half Waif. A constellation of musicians orbit Stolen Jars - vocalists
Molly Grund and
Sarah Coffey, drummer Matt Marsico, guitarists Connor McGuigan and
Peter Enriquez, and keyboard players Grant Meyer and Max Finkelstein push the band's energy to its outer edges during live shows.
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 and the Deli Magazine featured the band on the cover of its CMJ issue, with additional coverage on Stereogum and Consequence of Sound, as well as the Village Voice.
glint Tracklist:
1. Eliot
2. Gold Age
3. Long New York
4. Gone Away
5. Afterlight
Tour Dates:
July 11 - Brooklyn, NY - Silent Barn
July 12 - Boston, MA - Great Scott
July 13 - Eashampton, MA - Flywheel Arts Collective
July 14 - Winooski, VT - The Monkey House
July 15 - Montreal - La Vitrola
July 16 - Rochester, NY - The Bug Jar
July 17 - Pittsburgh, PA - The Mr. Roboto Project
July 18 - Cleveland, OH - Mahall's Locker Room
July 19 - Columbus, OH -
Double Happiness
July 21 - Chicago, IL - Schuba's Tavern
July 22 - St Louis, MO - Blank Space
July 23 - Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR
July 24 - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight
July 25 - Atlanta, GA - Mammal Gallery
July 26 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
July 27 - Richmond, VA - RomCom
July 28 - Washington, DC - Songbyrd
July 29 - Philadelphia, PA - The Sound Hole
