Artists starting with Cherry Glazerr

Cherry Glazerr, “Stuffed & Ready” (Secretly Canadian, 2019)
I loved their/her shambling debut on Burger, couldn’t quite get into the more pro followup, so I didn’t have any particular expectations for this. Turns out it’s awesome – the third time’s the charm, alright. This is well within the vein of the ‘90s-derived hard-guitar chug with modular/elliptical yet poppy song structures, but what makes this take distinctive is CG’s inherent love of rock and roll – what in other hands is dry and studied here sounds dexterously twisted as it fakes out and sucker-punches the listener. And it builds as an album, storm-clouds of dread ending in dark thunder like a sullen, enigmatic text message bursting through iPhone glass in a shard-scream.
Try 2/4, 2/5
4/7/19