Release Premiere: Smashed Glass - Wet Cement
This Friday, Vancouver’s Smashed Glass are set to release their debut EP “Wet Cement.” This punk/post-punk/noise-rock trio may be new but its members are seasoned veterans of Western Canada’s independent music scene. The project began as the brainchild of Kennedy Pawluk who found himself in an unusually quiet period in his musical career after the dissolution of Brass in 2023 and the relocation of all Dead Fibres members to various locales across western Canada. For Smashed Glass, Pawluk ditched the four strings and picked back up the six to begin writing an arsenal of riffs. Eventually he found the right collaborators in drummer Rory Troughton (also formally of Brass) and Jono Delivuk (Stuttr), and Smashed Glass was born.
After making their debut at Edmonton’s Purple City festival opening for experimental noise legends Wolf Eyes in the summer of 2024 (I was there, it was a hot and sweaty masterclass in noisy live music), the band began feverishly playing shows all across western Canada. After a run from Vancouver to Winnipeg and back they hopped in the studio with Jordan Koop at The Noise Floor and put this five song “sonic hissy-fit” to tape. It’s a noisy triumph that would have made appearances on our lists of “Favourite Album Art of 2025” and “Favourite EPs of 2025” if it had been released a month ago.
Today we are very excited to deliver an exclusive premiere of the entire EP a few days before Smashed Glass (consisting of a new bassist in Brendon Koenig of Runt) officially release it on December 6th with a show at Leo’s Clothing Supply in Vancouver, featuring support from Anchoress, Aversions and Yep.
