Damian Lazarus & Kenny Glasgow Share Monastic Studio’s Final Track, ‘Where Do We Go?’
Damian Lazarus and Kenny Glasgow released ‘Where Do We Go?’ on Crosstown Rebels on 23rd October. It’s the final production from Lazarus’ Monastic Studio, which burnt down in August.
Glasgow’s voice stays steady as the track shifts around him. Wiry guitar riffs give it an indie dance edge, while acid lines and sweeps of electronics move across a late night house groove. The rhythm holds its pace as the arrangement grows more restless. That tension gives Glasgow’s delivery more weight each time the vocal comes into focus.
His voice has a history on Crosstown Rebels. Glasgow helped define Art Department as both a singer and producer when the project emerged through the label more than a decade ago. He’d already been making records since the early ’90s, and his solo catalogue spans releases for Turbo and No.19 Music.
For Lazarus, the single follows ‘Magickal’, an album that brought in collaborators ranging from Fink and Jem Cooke to JOJO ABOT and Mathew Jonson. Working with Glasgow brings him back to a partnership that took shape on his own label. This time, the two put their own names to a record that makes as much room for guitar and acid as it does for house.
The fire gives the title another reading. “Where do we go? An unanswerable question for the dance floor,” Lazarus says. Thinking about where the ashes of the studio might go, he wonders if they “just clear a pathway through the sky so that we can finally see the moon.”
