Glass Pear 's, the project of Yetsyn Griffiths, music has already appeared on shows such as The Vampire Diaries, and One Tree Hill, but if you are not a girl, don't let that turn you off as the Londoner creates seriously smooth acoustic-leading pop gems. "One Day Soon" begins as a mellow walk, but the chorus out of nowhere picks up with a wonderful appearing melody. It's the little surprises in the music that gets you excited about an artist, and Glass Pear has plenty of them. "Dizzy" is a fantastic little love song, that strides all the right lines and will [...]
Glass Pear - Welsh indie singer/songwriter Yestyn Griffiths returns with a new self-titled full-length, the follow up to his 2010 EP Sweet America and 2009 full length debut Streets of Love ...numerous Greys Anatomy -styled TV placements -- and heart-on-sleeve lyricism -- have solidified his "sensitive dude" appeal...Trivia Bit: Griffiths is also the brother of platinum-selling alt/pop-stress Jem // Release : Glass Pear (December 5 U.K.) // Sounds like : what we've described before as "calmly studied folk/pop, smoothing any rough edges or troubling intensity with a soothing [...]
A long time ago I received one of the more personalized submission emails from the talented songwriter, Yestyn of Glass Pear . Then I forgot to post about him, then I remembered, and then forgot again. Somewhere in that time line he told me I could post any one song I wanted from either his Sweet America EP or his album Streets of Love . Choosing one was was a hard task. His song " Say it Once " was featured on One Tree Hill. But I went with the poppy and [...]
I'm back from holiday and from the first underwater encounter with these guys here: It was a short, but nonetheless impressive moment when five of these dolphins swam right between my dad and me, and it definitely was the highlight our dives. You sometimes just have to be on the right side at the right time! Speaking of The Right Side : just how cool is that new song by 802s heroes [...]
Now this one is an odd one. A few weeks back, I came across the absolutely stunning "My Ghost", by Glass Pear, a.k.a. Yestyn Griffiths. I posted about it SOMEWHERE on these magnificent InterWebz, and put the song to one side with a large post-it on it, stating "For the blog". Metaphorically. Then real life interfered, and I got side-tracked (hence the unforgivable delay in updating, but by now, you'll be used to it. Sorry...) And then Yestyn emailed me to say thanks for the mention. Which kind of freaked me out. But also reminded me [...]
You can't imagine how many times I intended to write a new post during the last few weeks, but always ended up with nothing... the mixture of work, writer's block and constant heat really doesn't go well together. But then I've had these lean periods before, so I guess I will be back posting more again soon. No worries! My mailbox has been growing constantly, and I have to apologise to so many artists that have written to me and like to be featured here. I'm not a fan of just throwing around MP3s without [...]
Glass Pear , AKA Welsh singer/songwriter Yestyn Griffiths, first came on our radar last year with the release of his nicely crafted debut album Streets of Love . Then came the holiday released single "Until The Morning Come", a lovely duet performed with Griffiths' older sister Jem, the platinum-selling popster who obviously knows her way around a sweetly turned out melody (listen at DC here ). "A lot of the songs I write are about the fragility and transiency of life and love," says Griffiths. "So I wanted to find a name that expressed that." And true [...]
Tis the season for family get-togethers, so we were happy to check out the new sibling seasonal collaboration between Welsh singer/songwriters Jem and her younger brother Yestyn Griffiths, aka Glass Pear . "Until the Morning Comes", available digitally, is much more of a Glass Pear styling, a ravishing folk/pop melody that has "classic" written all over it. With it's references to "snow falling"and "the greatest gift I could receive" and "blessings from above", "Morning Comes" is as inviting as a warm cup o' tea on a cold December daybreak. Glass Pear Myspace [...]
The main thing on this blog for the next few weeks will be the restoring of the older posts from Blogger. Since I plan to remove all non-working links to MP3's from all these posts, this will be a very time-consuming work, so new music-tipps will be put on the backburner for a while. But on the other hand, reviewing the old posts might also end up in follow-ups with actual news on past artists featured on this blog. I will just go with the flow and see what happens. First of all, I've created a contact-site; you'll [...]
So here we are, first posting at my new home. And I've got wonderful music as a welcome gift to you! A couple of days ago, I've received a promo mail from WOL Records , and they wanted me to check out an artist called Glass Pear . I did, and after watching My Ghost on YouTube and listening to Morning Light , I knew I had found something really special. The label was so kind to let [...]
Last week Glass Pear released their debut full length album Streets Of Love. We've blogged about them before on GFP about their well-known "Last Day Of Your Life" track and are happy to report that Glass Pear still consists of Keane-like piano melodies and well-crafted instrumentation. Frontman Yestyn Griffiths is not new to the songwriting realm, as he helped co-write many of the tracks on
Glass Pear debuted their first EP in September and it's finally getting the recognition it deserves, as major network shows like Grey's Anatomy are featuring the stellar collection of songs. The brainchild of Yestyn Griffiths, the 5 songs on the EP are smartly melodic, with well constructed rhythms for the drums and fresh arpeggios that echo the influence of Radiohead, Coldplay and Keane (case in
When I first started putting this week's mix together, I was stumped to find anything i really liked. It's been a slow week for me (musically), and nothing was really all that appealing to me. Then, it started. New stuff from the Decemberists in my inbox! At just that moment, a song was playing on TV which caught my ear. Turns out to be the brother of Welsh singer Jem. From there, things magically started to fall into place. Source after source, track by track, the mix came together. So now, I can present to you the whole bunchload of [...]
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