Built on Glass is the highly anticipated follow up to Chet Faker's Gold-selling debut EP ‘Thinking in Textures’. This, Chet's debut album, follows the hugely successful collaborative 'Lockjaw’ EP he made with Flume in 2013. It will be released by Australian tastemaker labels Future Classic and Opulent in April 2014.
The album was recorded and produced himself over a two-year period and melds Chet’s effortless RnB vocals and pop melodies with a youth spent making house, disco and intricate beats.
Chet has had a dream run since the release of Thinking in Textures in 2012: sell-out shows across Australia, the US, UK and Europe; festival slots including the Laneway Festival, Splendour, Falls and Field Day; media support the world over (including Radio 1’s Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens, Pitchfork, Prefix Mag and Filter); deals with influential labels Downtown Records (US), PIAS and Chess Club (UK); and a series of heralded collaborations with Say Lou Lou, Kilo Kish and Flume.
Back home, Chet Faker was nominated for five 2012 Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) Awards, winning for Best Independent Single/EP and Breakthrough Independent Artist. He was also nominated for two Rolling Stone Awards for Best New Talent and Best Independent Release, winning Best Independent Release. His Flume collab, single ‘Drop the Game’ and Lockjaw EP, was certified Platinum within weeks of its release and polled at #5 in the 2013 Hottest 100.