John Glacier

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• John Glacier’s ‘Like a Ribbon’ Is a Promising Debut | PopMatters | Feb. 27, 2025, midnight
John Glacier is keeping it low-key. “Satellites”, the first track on her debut album Like a Ribbon, opens with distant, watery guitar plucking, soon accompanied by Glacier’s distinctive cool...

• John Glacier Announces Debut Album ‘Like A Ribbon’ | Clash Magazine
London artist John Glacier has laid out plans for her debut album ‘Like A Ribbon’. The wordsmith has already built an imposing catalogue, replete with a number of acclaimed projects. 2021 release ‘SHILOH: Lost For Words’ remains an essential listen, while this year also brought the excellent ‘Like A Ribbon’ EP.

• John Glacier - Like A Ribbon review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Feb. 12, 2025, midnight
‘Like A Ribbon’ is an astonishingly confident debut from John Glacier, the Londoner’s sound showing itself as all-encompassing. The record feels otherworldly at times, the rotating arcade synths of ‘Emotions’ creating a buoyant atmosphere devoid of gravity; the lo-fi guitar and scratchy vocals of ‘Satellites’ emitting an intimacy ...

• John Glacier – Like A Ribbon - Dork - readdork.com | Dork | Feb. 12, 2025, midnight
East London rapper and producer John Glacier is breaking out of the alt-rap underground with her astonishingly good and deeply immersive debut album ‘Like A Ribbon’. This is a record that a lot of people have been waiting a long time for, and it lives up to the expectation.

• John Glacier: Like a Ribbon Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 20, 2025, 5:02 a.m.
John Glacier’s debut studio album, Like a Ribbon, arrives with all the laudatory press (“perhaps one of the most London-defining artists of her era”) that comes baked into a release on Young ...

• BBC Radio 6 Music - Gilles Peterson, John Glacier | BBC | Feb. 22, 2025, midnight
London-based rapper, poet and producer John Glacier joins Gilles in the studio to talk about her new album, ‘Like A Ribbon’.

• John Glacier has released her debut album 'Like A Ribbon', featuring ... | Dork | Feb. 14, 2025, midnight
John Glacier has released her debut album ‘Like A Ribbon’ via Young, featuring collaborations with Sampha, Flume, and Eartheater. The London-based rapper, poet and producer’s new record spans 11 tracks across three chapters – ‘Like A Ribbon’, ‘Duppy Gun’, and ‘Angel’s Trumpet’.

• John Glacier: Like a Ribbon | Spectrum Culture | Feb. 13, 2025, midnight
Like a Ribbon occupies a very specific cross section of hip hop, electronic and alternative R&B, with compositions that leave ample room for cavernous synths and heavy drums. Despite the textural variety on display, the album as a whole retains an intimacy that matches Glacier’s writing.

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