Cherry Glazerr – I Don’t Want You Anymore (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:24 minutes | 462 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Secretly Canadian
Having started at 15, Cherry Glazerr frontwoman and anchor Clementine Creevy—now 26—has tried on a few (always heavy) styles as she has grown and evolved. Gone is the delicious howl of 2017’s “I Told You I’d Be with the Guys” and the nasty shoegaze of 2019’s “Wasted Nun.” For her fourth album, with producer Yves Rothman (Blondshell, Yves Tumor) applying his gritty take on slickness, Creevy has made a twisted dance record. But this is not the shiny disco of Dua Lipa; it’s the fuel of a dark, slightly dangerous underground club at 3 a.m. At first it’s a little unnerving to hear Creevy’s breathy upper register mixed against full-on disco chic—funk rhythms and winking synths—on songs like “Bad Habit” or the goth-ish dance-floor elixir that is “Wild Times,” grooving Depeche Mode-style synth. But it works. Creevy has called “Soft Like a Flower” her “Evanescence moment,” and she really lets loose, both in what she says and how she says it. “Gave up my tricks/ I’ll be your dog…” she wails along with her guitar. “My head out your car/ Cuz I like you killing me. “It’s a real ‘losing your fucking shit’ kind of vibe … Completely exposed,” she has said. “It’s also a little bit about loving the anguish and toxicity that comes with being ruined by another person. Letting go and submitting to them but then catching yourself becoming too much like them.” Indeed, the album explores relationship struggles from all sides, turning over rocks and looking under blankets and, most of all, probing herself. “I’m so embarrassed all the time/ Wish I could meet you with my eyes/ Ah-ha, wish I was ready for you,” Creevy sings on “Ready For You,” her voice like a swath of gauze being stretched to the breaking point, until the song explodes open, bottom heavy and thumping, working itself up into a tumultuous storm. The rhythm—bass by Sami Perez, drums by Tabor Allen—is so important here: brewing a dark, low cloud for “Addicted to Your Love” and a monstrous, big foot stomp on “I Don’t Want You Anymore.” “Touched You With My Chaos” is absolute grunge thunder, complete with drama-pitch strings. And “Sugar” sounds like a youthful descendent of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” Creevy wallowing in her … dependence? Co-dependence? Addiction? Worship? “You make me wanna crawl away/ I’m so ashamed I’m not this way … Break my heart, I don’t care/ Fortune told me that no one’s there/ I’m buried deep in your mess.” – Shelly Ridenour
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Cherry Glazerr – Stuffed & Ready (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:03 minutes | 382 MB | Genre: Alternative
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After releasing 2016’s critically acclaimed ‘Apocalipstick,’ Cherry Glazerr spent the next 18 months touring the world on their own steam. Between DIY All Ages venues, rock clubs, large festival stages, and massive theaters with some of the world’s best and most beloved bands (The Pixies, Flaming Lips, Slowdive, and The Breeders, among others), the band has really only stopped to work on their follow up, ‘Stuffed & Ready.’ While furiously building the band’s sound and ideas, front person Clem Creevy enlisted Carlos de La Garza to be the band’s studio co-collaborator as they evolved the songs and refined the recordings.
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