LABEL: Anti
CAT NO: 277993
BARCODE: 8714092779936
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Bodies
2. Are You Sure?
3. Try Harder Still
4. Little Backward Glance
5. How A Song Should Go
6. The End
Side B
1. Didn’t Want It
2. Indeed
3. Birdsong
4. I Made The Call
5. Fire
6. Life Is Not A Lesson
GLITTERER – Life Is Not A Lesson
LP – Limited Red Vinyl
Life is Not a Lesson is Glitterer’s second full length album, featuring Ned Russin, bassist/vocalist of seminal hardcore-punk band Title Fight. This time Ned has produced the record himself, notwithstanding some recording and performance help from his twin brother, Ben, and some other friends, as well as mixing and mastering by Arthur Rizk (Code Orange, Power Trip). It may surprise you to hear that, irrespective of worldly doom and gloom, the new songs are even catchier and bigger-sounding than those from his 2019 release, Looking Through the Shades.
With roomier drums and more electric guitars-per-square-inch than ever, Life is Not a Lesson has a way of evoking an alternate universe version of Guided By Voices, one with a hardcore-punk background. Life is Not a Lesson proves to be a rigorous reckoning with the life of the mind at a time when there’s not much life outside the mind.