Glazz Nooze is the fourth album from Glass Noose who are Tristan Zemtseff's almost one person band who are currently based in Pittsburgh. For this album he's joined by Michya, they recorded the album in Seattle.
The album opens slowly with To Be Broken that has almost Radiohead style mewled vocals, straining over the carefully picked proggy guitar before the thumping drums come in with some synths.
Sharpen The Blades takes a slow insistent guitar part, adds in dark percussive textures, the lyrics wonder how to change things, or are we doomed to destroy. The doomy guitars rage into the void for the vocals to go full screamo over.
Everyone's Favourite Song tries to be just that, but will only be so if you like proggy math rock stylings, with all sorts of odd changes, shifts in tone, this shape shifts a malaise like soundscape questioning why all the blockbusters are re-treads.
13Teen is shock and awe nu metal guitars, machine gunned riffs, dovetailing into Dream Theatre like expansive guitar flourishes, with drilled drumming this goes all over the map.
The Milk In The Tea has autotuned cyphered vocals coming through the tricky multi-level dynamics within the guitars.
Parts One And Two is a 10 minute plus magnum opus that begins like it might be a Pink Floyd type acid work out, but the guitars are pulling them away from that direction, more towards Opeth style slow building mammoth, that breaks down to a slow piano part, before the crunchy distorted guitars build into Part Two that fractures going off in several meandering directions.
C093542 is about a truly bonkers Californian court case that managed to classify Bees as Fish, it was the only way to protect them under California law, they ask should we change the system, a question that only becomes ever more crucial with every passing day of 2024's car crash of an electoral cycle, making clearer by the day how desperately broken the USA's system really is.
SORROV is dark hued screamo fighting against modern paranoia, although how to resist it in the current climate is unclear, doom laden drums and percussion ring out.
Nothingburger certainly makes sense to this burger averse reviewer, who hasn't eaten one since 1985, this has screams for peace and an end to violence over the slow math-rock extrusions.
The Stranger Is Whatever May Come takes a slowly evolving piano and guitar figure with weird vocal interjections.
The album closes with Some People Pray that is more straight-ahead math rock, that I think is encouraging us all to think and work towards making the world a better more peaceful place to be, praying might help, but action speaks far louder.
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