Glös / Glos

Although Glös is a supergroup of sorts, with all three of its members having extensive credits in other current and former bands, it's also an organic family unit comprised of a brother and sister and their longtime friend. Glös began in 2005, when guitarist Keeley Davis and drummer Cornbread Compton were casting about for a new project after their previous band, the prolific emo act Engine Down, split up amicably. Living in different cities, Davis and Compton primarily collaborated over the Internet, writing songs separately and posting the sound files to each other for further elaboration. Having written nearly two dozen songs in this fashion, Davis then turned to his sister Maura Davis, with whom he had previously played in the moody, Portishead-influenced semi-electronic quartet Denali. Adding lyrics and vocals to the largely completed backing tracks, the Chicago-based Maura completed the cross-country trio. After nearly two years of writing and recording tracks while the bandmembers lived in various cities, the newly named Glös (a meaningless word Keeley Davis and Compton close because it sounded indistinctly European and exotic) released their debut album, Harmonium, on Engine Down's former label, Lovitt Records, in the spring of 2007. Continuing their tendency to multi-task, all three members of Glös maintain concurrent membership in other bands across the country: Maura Davis is the lead singer of Chicago dream pop outfit Ambulette, Keeley Davis is guitarist in the El Paso-based At the Drive-In offshoot Sparta, and Cornbread Compton plays drums for Los Angeles singer/songwriter Matt Skiba's side project Heavens.