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They come right at ya with a powerful RATM
demeanor. Shifty riffs, full use of the Rap/Rock rants and shady verses before driving the
point home in the chorus -- a choral bloodletting. Each song
is a purification
of personal pain and subsequent relief.
We'll take
"Vanishing," the opening track, as an example, but really we can go down the
list. It's
been done and heard before countless times and we accept it as the
current style and so where does this band stand apart from the rest? The
elementalist nature is there, the tunes, deeply embedded in the Nu-Metal
new, age vibe (guitars tuned low, heavy, repetitively ground
chords to accentuate the opening delivery, offset by a keen sense of
melodic awareness, hereafter known simply as "verse") and
it's that extra dash of color that puts these guys up there in
rank. Yeah, I can reel
off a number of bands that share this likeness. You've read about
them a thousand fold, and I like how Gladyss Patches go from being Kid
Rock in a Biohazard-ish environment in one instant, Billy Corgan the
next, bar-coded, bar chording, openly arranged, major to minor
within the thought. Sometimes they're spiky, spooky, psychy, sometimes relevant,
others redundant. It's a formula that's worked well for many, these
guys use it to full extent and at the end of the day, the tunes are
pretty stand up.
"Vanishing," "Headlights,"
"Peeled," and a personal fave, "Spin," the latter two featuring forefront ambience to support their
fist-clenching cause. I like the name too… I mean, I like "Smashed
Gladys" better, but I can live with this, and the supposed derivation from an
Irish porn star of all things. Stop the
world, shut the lights, and close your eyes, look like old Gladyss
getting' ready to groove.
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