New West Records release recordings from Athens, GA luminaries The Glands. After nearly two decades of radio silence, new music has surfaced in the form of a 23-song record - titled Double Coda - featuring all original and unreleased material written by the late Ross Shapiro. The Glands existed in and outside of a robust '90s Athens scene, communing with the psychedelic weirdness of Elephant 6 bands like The Olivia Tremor Control, but made music more akin to the moody, cool and disaffected indie-rock of Yo La Tengo, spun up with the Southern drawl of life — humid, smiley, slow to motion, but intentionally so. Ross Shapiro, the Glands frontman (and record store owner), died of lung cancer in 2016 at the age of 53. He always promised more music, and now it's here.
