Since his cover of 'No Diggity' and 2012's Thinking In Textures, Chet Faker has been the Australian poster boy for the nebulous intersection of R&B and soul-influenced electronic music. This is his first full-length.
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Given Chet Faker's profile in his homeland over the past few years, it's easy to forget the Melbourne producer had only put out a single solo EP before Built on Glass. Since his cover of 'No Diggity' and 2012's Thinking In Textures, Faker has been the Australian poster boy for the nebulous intersection of R&B and soul-influenced electronic music. Either somewhere between James Blake and Tom Krell or a leader of the ignominious 'Australian sound' depending on who you ask, Faker's standard-bearing might seem a little premature. Built on Glass, as his first full-length, is therefore his case to the world.
There's some premeditation to this statement of his. Faker reportedly scrapped his album twice in pursuit of refining what Chet Faker is supposed to sound like. The result is some inconsistency as Faker tries to reconcile every avenue of his interest with his existing identity, and almost certain disappointment for anyone who expected 52 minutes of Chet as soft-spoken sex facilitator. In the confusion, though, is the chance for surprise, and Faker capitalizes with a hint of just how far his horizons can expand beyond the flaccid cracker-crooning of his previous work.
The first half of the record is where Faker satisfies his obligations. Opening with his trademark Rhodes piano and soupy vocals with 'Release Your Problems', he then runs through the beat- and sample-chopping singles 'Talk Is Cheap' and 'Melt' and the woozy R&B of 'Gold'. The first indication that not everything is as it seems comes on 'No Advice (Airport Version)': splitting up the two singles, it occupies half its duration with electroacoustic burbling before allowing Faker to sing a few short bars over nothing but a low, vibrating hum.
It's necessary to talk about Built on Glass in sides as it makes a point of distinguishing between them. The record pivots with the interlude '/', a gravelly Southern accent speaking through vinyl pops and cracks: 'That was the other side of the record. Now relax still more and drift a little deeper as you listen.' This second half is where Faker becomes more adventurous, enough to venture beyond the borders set for him by his first record. With the blueprint reaffirmed by the first side, the back load feels like he's consciously leaving behind familiar ground to investigate his other influences further. Faker plays with depth, allowing each element room to move between the back and foreground. Booming drums shatter the cavernous atmosphere of 'Blush', broken shards of glass tumble over each other, and Faker's pitch-shifted vocals clash from high and low, finally uniting harmoniously in the middle.
The album's climax is in the coupling of the betrayal-house of '1998' and the rhythmic textures of 'Cigarettes & Loneliness'. On '1998', Faker's mumblemouth drawl works in his favor, sounding too numb in parts to even motivate his lips, but at least finding the strength to croak 'We used to be friends.' A chattering beat leads it into 'Cigarettes & Loneliness' and Faker's voice strengthens into a Van Morrison-like lilt, dancing over syllables.
Maybe it's no coincidence that between the whirring synths and the beat, like metal wheels clanking over tracks, it sounds like the siren of a level railway crossing; the kind of place desperate folks all too often wander in their final moments. The track itself conjures a similar, overbearing futility. Again, Faker explores the space, disrupting the stability of its plucked central riff with cascading elements both percussive and melodic, sucking it all up into its weeping choruses as Faker pleads helplessly for understanding.
Faker placed a keyboard on the cover of Thinking In Textures, nodding towards his greatest tool. On Built on Glass, it's replaced by a human hand; possibly a nod towards Faker's adoption of what we still anachronistically refer to as 'real instruments.' While the core of Built on Glass is still drum machines and synthesizers, Faker's expansion into the organic and electroacoustic has given him a wider territory to roam. And while the introduction of those elements into his work might leave some wondering what happened to the bedroom producer who took over Australia with a dashed-off Blackstreet cover, Chet Faker's first full-length album proves that the artist is eager to explore new frontiers.
Back to homeWhen you click Share in either the Organizer or Full Photo Edit mode of Photoshop Elements 10 and open the Share panel, you find Online Album at the top of the list. The term Online is a bit misleading here because you can use this sharing option for both online and local file creations.
Export options for creating a photo album
In Photoshop Elements 10, the process for creating an album is the same, regardless of the destination you want for your file. When you select photos in the Organizer and click Online Album, the Share panel displays three options for your output.
Options for sharing albums in the Share panel include
Photoshop.com. Choose this option if you want to upload an album to your space on Photoshop.com.
Export to CD/DVD (Windows only). Use this option to write an album to a CD or DVD that can be viewed on your DVD player.
Export to Hard Disk. Choose this option to export files to a folder. Once the files are exported, you can view the album locally on your hard drive by using your Web browser, or upload the files to a Web site so any visitor can view the album.
Export a Photoshop Elements 10 album to a hard drive
When working with online photo albums, you can use any album you have previously created, or you can create a new album by clicking the Create New Album radio button in the Share panel.
Creating a beautiful album with an attractive layout and transitions between the photos is one of many great things you can do with Photoshop Elements with just a few mouse-clicks. To see how easy it is to create an album showing off your photos, follow these steps:
Open the Organizer and select the photos you want to use for your album.
Alternately, you can select photos in the Project Bin while in Full Photo Edit mode.
Click Share in the Panels Bin and choose Online Album from the panel options to display the options available.
If you have an album ready to use, click the radio button adjacent to that album. (Note that all your existing albums appear ready for use in the Share panel.)
If you want to use selected photos from the Organizer or Project Bin, click the Create New Album radio button.
Choose an export option.
If you want to share photos on Photoshop.com, the radio button is selected by default. To export an album to a CD or DVD (Windows), choose the second option. Choose export to hard disk, which is the third and final export option.
You can first select photos in the Organizer, and then click Share→Online Album. All the selected photos are added to a new album.
Click Next at the bottom of the Share panel.
After clicking Next, the Share panel displays two tabs. One tab is titled Content, and the other is titled Sharing. If you want to add or delete photos from your album, you can click the Content tab and click the plus (+) icon at the bottom of the panel to add photos. Click the minus (–) icon to delete photos.
Click the Sharing tab to display options for your album.
If you create a new album instead of using an existing album, type a name in the Album Name text box.
Choose a template.
At the top of the window, you find a number of different template choices. Click a template, and a preview is shown in the image pane.
Export the album.
Click the Browse button. In the Browse dialog box, locate a target destination on your hard drive and click OK. If you want to create a new folder, click Make New Folder and click OK.
Click Done.
Your files are saved to your hard drive.
When you export the album to a hard drive, an HTML file named index.html is copied to your target folder. You can upload the folder to a website and the album appears the same as shown in the preview. If you want to preview the album in a web browser, open the index.html document on your hard drive in your web browser.