Deep cut dreamer down on your knees
Same old truth to learn
I still taste deception wet on her lips
Drinking in the shame
Glisten Trick is a band whose sound murmurs like it’s been sitting in a dim basement too long, tuning their nerves to the hum of fluorescent doom until the walls start breathing back, and vivid dreams begin a euphoric deluge awash in indescribable textures. Their forthcoming EP, Death Cult Rainbows, tilts from deep, narcotic groove and shimmering blooms of crystalline beauty, into throbbing, acidic loops that sweep beneath unadorned, laconic delivery, as if the band is trying to pry open a seam in their own skulls just to let some colour spill out.
This six-piece is a strange congregation pulled together from cult drone circles, neo-psych travelers, and garage-damaged misfits wandering between the US and the UK. You can hear that mix in the way the song shivers: sharp edges meeting soft haze, discipline cracking under pressure. The lyrics sketch a scene of desire soured, where beauty curdles into ache, and the body becomes a vessel for doubt. The repeated image of “clear blue tears” hits like ice water poured over a wound; longing twisted by betrayal in slow motion.
And then there’s the gut-punch behind it all: “The songs on Death Cult Rainbows, including ‘DEEP CUT,’ are a last-ditch effort to get something beautiful out into the world. I want to leave something beautiful and meaningful for my kids.” You read that and the room tilts. Suddenly, every synth tremor, every low chant, every acidic loop feels like someone clawing at the curtain between disaster and deliverance, trying to pass through something tender before the world slams shut.
Jean De Oliviera’s music video for the song compounds that sense of drifting peril: a psychedelic montage of flowing colour, the frame melting around rising British artists Daisy Rickman and Hugo Winder-Lind, with Portuguese artist T Vagabond flickering in like a messenger from some blissed-out fever. Faces blur. Light bends. It looks like a postcard from the brink, dropped in a puddle and left to bloom.
Watch the video for “Deep Cut” below:
There’s more coming from Glisten Trick soon: another single in December, one in February, and the full Death Cult Rainbows EP in March. A tour is set for March with smaller shows warming up in February. If this track is the warning shot, the rest might burn straight through the floorboards.
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