Cherry Glazerr – Stuffed & Ready Album Review

posted February 5, 2019 in CommRadio, Arts & Entertainment by Matthew Dunn

Cherry Glazerr, an unapologetic rock band from Los Angeles, have released their follow-up to 2017’s Apocalipstick. Going from what frontwoman Clementine Creevy has called “an over-confident teenager trying to solve the world’s problems [to] a much [wearier] and perhaps cynical woman who believes you need to figure your own self out first” on their latest project, "Stuffed & Ready."

“The light inside my head went dead, I turned off.” With these lyrics  from the first verse off of "Stuffed & Ready"’s opener “Ohio,” Cherry Glazerr sets an immediate dark tone lyrically for the album ahead.

Their sound? Perhaps as clean as it has ever been. What begins with a short vocal clip of Creevy practicing, explodes into a beautifully orchestrated group-effort, drowning in sound with no room for silence.

With only one core member of the band remaining in frontwoman Clementine Creevy, there’s this greater sense of coordination on the album’s direction. A more introverted view within Creevy’s psyche, one that reads like a diary of self-expression.

On “Daddi”, Creevy pens perhaps one of her most visually upsetting, yet importantly raw lyrics to date in “smoking makes me taste like metal, to keep you away.”

In a song that has been deemed controversial by even the band’s own fans, Creevy turns the ugly phenomena that is ownership within relationships into an absolute punk rock anthem. This ability to take something so seemingly personal and twisted and be able to flip that onto a gorgeous raucous of a track; one with fluttering guitar riffs and heavy power chords, it is possibly the most true rebellious action to come out of the genre in a while.

Being an constant presence in the rock scene since their inauguration back in 2013, Creevy is still only 22 years olde. She is full of exuberant youthful rage and moving mentally towards an understanding on how crooked the world can sometimes function.

While still not claiming to have all the answers, on “Stupid Fish” Creevy delivers a Björk-esque vocal performance exclaiming, “I don’t want to try to pretend, like I know what’s happening / I’m a stupid fish and so are you.”

There’s a lot circulating around Creevy’s mind and she wants so badly to let out all that she feels, but like most of us, she is unable to get it out of her “stupid head.” She is spiraling in thought as she sees herself in those around her and wants to help in every way, but it’s impossible, a plight on the innateness of human error.

The album is a serving size of roughly 32 minutes, allowing for incredible replay ability. Maybe stuck trying to top their hit song “Had Ten Dollaz” from back in 2014, "Stuffed & Ready" offers a more cohesive body of work than they’ve ever delivered, one that down the road might just be remembered as their best.

Reviewer’s Best Tracks – “Daddi” & “Wasted Nun”

Reviewer’s Worst Track – “Distressor”

Rating: 7/10

 

 

Matthew Dunn is a junior majoring in print journalism. To contact him, email mzd5424@psu.edu.