Secretly Canadian signee Loren Kramar announces debut album, Glovemaker

Loren Kramar says, “Glovemaker has become a kind of code for artmaking itself. A glove as a covering or mask that follows the contours of the life beneath it. As a song and symbol, this is an album about studying and tracing my own life - and then sharing what’s there. I live with a constant sense of reaching and this song is an attempt at telling that story. The loneliness, the striving and the obsession with becoming a better artist, more successful, more understood, loved.”

The single comes with a self-directed video starring Nick Robinson (Maid, A Teacher, Love, Simon) and non-binary artist Ilana Kozlov that sees Kramar dressed as a sad clown at a costume party, not aware of anyone but his own ego. The video is a circus mirror; an exercise in distortion and performance, and we watch as Kramar pushes his own image, his own spectacle of self, to a point of collective isolation as an ode to the melancholy of social performance set against the fantasy of Hollywood.

To celebrate the announcement of Glovemaker, Kramar will head to London for his debut UK show on Wednesday 20th March at The Grace. He’s also set to perform in Amsterdam and Paris as well as a number of shows in the States