Eclectic indie rock between beer can shelves and toy land.
A look at the tracklist is enough: first track “Addicted To Your Love”, final track “I Don’t Want You Anymore”, in between the “Wild Times” are praised, one is “Ready For You”, but it’s just before the end everything is “shattered”. It screams loudly: a concept album about a great love that dies out over the course of the album, although singer and band founder Clementine Creevy doesn’t admit anything more than that this is her “most personal” album.
Even thinking in terms of genre in terms of an overarching narrative, Creevy works through the history of indie rock: in “Ready For You” she relies on guitar broadbands, with “Bad Habit” and its rhythmically fired vocal samples she jets into synth-pop city. This mixture of electronic and rock is well known; Garbage perfected it in the nineties. For Cherry Glazerr, Yves Tumor’s producer Yves Rothman may have promoted this mixture. But what seems interesting in tumors sometimes has the aftertaste of beer cans and nose piercings.
In the better and second half of the album, Creevy leaves the guitar in the closet, such as in the airy produced “Golden”, with delicate vocals, delicate trumpet and whirring synthesizers: an ethereal delight that sends Warpaint to toyland. And this is exactly where you feel a relevance that is often missing on this album.
Author: Michael Prenner