Glasser unveils the new single "Drift"

Of the new single "Drift", Glasser says: “It's been my obsession for the last, I don't even know how long. That lyric is just something that came out of me like “What a good life / Except for all those times / When you want to die” It was kind of meant to be a joke but sounds quite serious in the context of the entire record. But also, jokes are serious sometimes too. It's good to joke about serious things, for me at least. I made so many versions. And I really wanted the final version to have sort of a dance vibe to it because dancing about death is better than weeping. They're both good, but I wanted to dance about that.”

"The concept for the video originally came together from an earlier visual I shot with Niles Roth in the Poconos in an abandoned love motel," she reveals. "We shot a video there which was my face projected onto my face in the rubble of this space. The original video never came out and when it was time to shoot a new video for this song, we were inspired by the original footage we captured and incorporated a similar concept."

“I guess it’s just about the sort of inevitability of us coming to our own fate, and some of the lyrics are about my voice and the fear of my voice disappearing," Glasser says of her hiatus and the resulting album. "Itself a kind of death - it’s a death of sorts. This record for me is texturally and thematically half heaven and half earth. ‘crux’ was a word that stuck with me always, as it’s onomatopoeic, it literally sounds like a vital aspect of intersection. It’s a cross in Latin, and it’s a horizon to me. I’m the crux of this project and I’m on the earth and heaven is inside of me. And in us all."

Apart from her majestic 2022 single "New Scars", crux marks a return for Glasser, following the Sextape EP in 2018 and two critically acclaimed albums, Ring and Interiors, released in 2010 and 2013 respectively.

In this time Glasser performed at MoMA, PS1, The Walker Arts Center, MOCA, Coachella, Primavera, Latitude, Field Day, and she toured with the XX and Sigur Rós' Jónsi. She’s also collaborated on remix projects with the likes of Fever Ray, Jamie XX and John Talabot.