The Glass Ceiling: a night shift hymnal

The Glass Ceiling is VitaHeal’s most grounded record: twenty-four hours with a service worker whose body is exhausted and whose spirit refuses to be. It starts at the timeclock (“Clock”), rides the anxious commute (“Stationary”), and sits down to the arithmetic no song usually bothers with — “Kitchen Table Hymn”, bills spread out like sheet music.

“Check Engine / Paper Plane” holds the album’s whole heart in one title: the warning light and the wish, side by side.

Economic exhaustion treated as a spiritual condition, and rest reclaimed as an act of quiet defiance. For everyone holding up a ceiling made of glass.