Glyders was a duo with ever changing drummers, until guitarist/vocalist Joshua Condon and bassist Eliza Weber ran into drummer Joe Seger. Ever since the three are on a trip to conquer the world together. For starters, they have conquered my ears. That started right with the opening song, 'Super Glyde'. The intro is rather weird in sound and in presentation. My guess was that this was going to be an instrumental track. Around one minute the song changes course and twenty seconds later Condon starts singing. By then the song has a T. Rex vibe, like 'Get It On'. At the same time my brain was turning itself inside out during the chorus to find an answer to the question it kept asking, until I found the answer, Tim Claridge of Death Goldbloom. It sounds like his voice there.
T. Rex returns once more in the second track, 'Moon Eyes', that turned out to be instrumental. The psychedelic sauce that is poured over the song, makes it totally its own. With 'Stone Shadow' Big Star and Chris Bell get a huge tip of the hat. Glyders obviously is not afraid of showing what it likes to listen to, while adding some nice songs to the whole in existence already. Later on we get some The Velvet Underground in the way of playing, in a song that is different from what Lou Reed c.s. used to play. Listen to the songs of Forever and you will notice Glyders does this kind of trick for the whole of the time, by including snippets from other bands and sounds into its own.
I could do comparisons for more songs, but that would sell Forever short. The album contains several exciting songs (and one or two less so). Isn't this what discovering new music is about? Finding songs that are either beautiful or wild and exciting? Glyders is able to present just that with its second album. Now what does 'Maria's Hunt' sound like?
Wout de Natris - van der Borght
You can listen to and order Forever here:
https://glyders.bandcamp.com/album/forever
Wat een fantastisch blog. Ik heb een zielsverwant gevonden.
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