Album Review: Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready

Los Angeles zealous indie-rock outfit Cherry Glazerr embody what it means to be wonderfully loose, reckless, spiralling, and manically derailed – and in all the best ways. While their 2017 second album Apocalipstick was driven by the confident teenage ferocity of vocalist, guitarist and founder Clementine Creevy, Stuffed & Ready sees her waver into self-examination and uncertainty. 

Her voice – breathy and hollow, while strong and sweet – dances between thundering distorted guitars and doomy riffs. The tongue-in-cheek and eerie Daddi addresses possessiveness and controlling behaviour in relationships with men, with lines like, “Who should I fuck, Daddy? Is it you?” The rawness of Creevy’s lyricism can bring on discomfort, but discomfort is a necessary and gripping component of Cherry Glazerr’s music: it allows us to address our own sense of unease by unearthing its causes. 

Distressor and Stupid Fish’s structures are divvied up between softer lulls and all out rage. Through intensive reflection, Creevy hasn’t simply replicated her thoughts via song, but tediously pulled them apart, grating and grinding until she learnt how they came to be in the first place. Stuffed & Ready feels like an intentional coming undone, a controlled mental unravelling presented on a platter for an audience – and all amid full throttle rock’n’roll.