This episode features Jacksonville, Florida based alternative, shoegaze musician Sam Glass - who goes under the name The Coward Robert Ford. Throughout a 12 album-length discography, Glass completes sounds that breakthrough the mesmerizing style of shoegaze by fusing elements of slowcore, emo, experimental, and alternative music. Each release crystallizes a new boundless version of experimental shoegaze by creating layers of acoustic, at times noisy, depth with stammering, hollow, but lush design. Glass's torn and airy vocals make for a genuine sense of distant, but relatable pain. Whether you are processing current emotions or its simply a nostalgic experience, The Coward Robert Ford is reliably visceral.

Some topics of discussion:

Growing up listening to blue's artists like BB King, performing with his high school punk band Cat Turtle at Newport music hall in Ohio, being homeless moving from Indiana, PA, and CA, working at a juvenile detention center, music's ability to expound on the intricacies of mental health, fooling around with unique tunings, using reverb as a tool instead of a crutch, selling his old squier telecaster for a ticket to Riot Fest, classifying Title Fight as shoegaze, the story of Robert Ford who idolizes one of the greatest outlaws, his criterion selection and our love for Charlie Kaufman, explaining album art, creating Black Manifestations as a means of processing his father's death, listening to music as a time for reflection of where you are at or remembering where you were, why Bandcamp is a preferred choice for artists, his parody Tinder profile going viral on Reddit, and so much more!

TCRF socials:

https://linktr.ee/thecowardrobertford