Glorietta – Glorietta
This article was originally posted on the S&R Blog.
Fuzzed out amps, hazy strained voices, and blues rhythms are a combination as old as guitar music itself. That doesn’t mean, however, that it’ll ever truly go out of vogue, or at least out of the cultural fringes. Glorietta’s self-titled debut clearly wants to revel in these fringes, singing about the same losers that populate the worlds of southern rock, country, and Americana that their songwriting chops clearly are pulled from. For an LP that rarely goes above mid-tempo it’s odd to feel like the sonic assault doesn’t ever let up until the final track, but despite the downer lyrics the mood is never down. There’s a reverence for the down-trodden being sung about, as if they are the heroes to be worshipped instead of those who make it out. Perhaps they ought to be.
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