It Only Takes A Minute by My Glass World: Review

by admin November 17, 2025

November 17, 2025

It Only Takes A Minute by My Glass World: Review

“It Only Takes A Minute” arrives as My Glass World’s first release since Stranded Assets, and even though it stands apart from the album, it carries the same sharp bones and restless spirit that have come to define Jamie Telford’s musical world. Released on November 7, 2025 via Luxury Noise Records, the single was originally a “forgotten track,” but it quickly proves why it deserved to be unearthed. Telford and longtime collaborator Sean Read push into darker, moodier territory here, leaning on Jon Kensington’s insistent motor-rock bass to drive the whole thing like a heartbeat you can’t calm.

The wider context adds its own intrigue. My Glass World, now primarily the duo of Telford and Read, have shaped a distinct pocket within British indie-rock, threaded with jazz, pop, and classical nods. Both carry deep pedigrees, with Telford’s past collaborations with Paul Weller and Richard Strange, Read’s long résumé with Dexys, Edwyn Collins, and The Pretenders, and the band’s long-running habit of calling in heavy hitters like Little Barrie and Martyn Kaine. “It Only Takes A Minute,” recorded partly at Famous Times in Hackney and partly at Luxury Noise in Scotland, is like a snapshot from a creative period that was already simmering.

The song opens with soft rain, before shaky, jittering percussion creeps in like a pulse under the skin. The beat drops with a steady, marching intensity, and Telford’s rich voice enters low and numb, singing with an apathy that feels unnervingly controlled. His delivery has a steely, detached mood, echoing the lyric’s fixation on time slipping through fingers. Kensington’s bass snarls underneath, giving everything a nervous drive, while the shaky percussion adds a twitchy, angst.

The accompanying music video leans into that feeling, with clocks, headlights, and motion blur turning the song’s hypnotic pulse into a visual meditation on movement, mortality, and the thin line between momentum and freefall. “It Only Takes A Minute” may have been forgotten once, but now it lands like a warning, a whisper, and a jolt all at once.