Album Type:Album
Date Released:
June 3rd
2014
Label:
Purge Records
Pearls &
Swine and Everything Fine track listing:
1.45 Shakedown
2.Look What You're
Doing To Me
3.Mine All Mine
4.Fat Cat
5.Love Ghost
6.Domino (Black
Flowers)
7.Hello September
(Goodbye April)
8.Got My Eye On You
9.Nerve Endings
10.Headhunter
Bio:
Heavy
Glow new studio album is produced by Michael Patterson (Trent Reznor
& Atticus Ross, Beck, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, P. Diddy,
Notorious B.I.G., Duran Duran) and Nic Jodoin (BRMC, The Morlocks,
Nightmare Air) titled, Pearls & Swine and Everything Fine, is
slated for June 3rd, 2014 release date. The band's influences include
Motown, Psychedelia, Grunge, Delta Blues, Country Blues, Chicago
Blues. As frontman Jared Mullins explains "We dig 60s Detroit,
60s San Francisco, 70s Mid-West, 90s Seattle, 20s-40s Mississippi
Delta, 50s Chicago/Chess Records."
"If
you dig just-barely-pre-metal hard rock in the manner of Blue Cheer,
Cactus, Mountain, Humble Pie, and Mark II Deep Purple, turn off your
'puter and go get this sizzlin' slab right now…" writes Stash
Dauber. KTVU Oakland adds “…Heavy Glow delivers a compelling,
tuneful sound that mixes elements of head-nodding blues, swirling
psychedelia and guitar heft.” The band "weds Grand Funk
Railroad muscle with ‘80s guitar god finesse," the Examiner
opines.
The
album was recorded in Los Angeles at Studio 9. Heavy Glow is Jared
Mullins on vocals and guitars, Joe Brooks on bass and St. Judas on
drums (touring drummer is Ryan Muller). "I honestly can’t wait
for people to hear Pearls and Swine," Mullins explains. "To
me it’s a very raw but beautiful depiction of the decaying,
dilapidated state of mind I was in while writing it. It’s as close
as chaos and creation can be."
Cincinnati
City Beat reports that album track “Headhunter” was recently
played by the local disc jockey character in CBS’s Under the Dome
(season one, episode two), which resulted in a virtual tidal wave of
attention for Heavy Glow, a perfect publicity metaphor for the band’s
volume, power and intensity."
The
album cover was designed by renowned artist Darren Grealish, whose
work includes gig posters for Queens of the Stone Age and the Melvins
and graces the walls of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band
will tour the U.S. throughout the year.
The
Band Members
Jared
Mullins-Guitars/Vocals
Joe
Brooks-Bass
Ryan
Muller-drums
St.
Judas-percussion
Review:
Psych
Stoner /Blues Rockers – Heavy Glow – return with their eagerly
awaited 2nd album – Pearls & Swine and Everything Fine. 3
years after their critically acclaimed debut album Midnight Moan was
unleashed upon to the world. So has much changed here. You bet it
has. This album is generating a lot of buzz already from the lucky
people who have already heard this album. And now you can add me to
that list as Heavy Glow have delivered the goods.
A
40-minute album packed full of heavy blues-rock aided a long with a
lot of soul. Now this is what a top-notch Classic Psych Stoner Rock
band should sound like. Heavy Glow play a more fast-paced proto-rock
blues based kind of Stoner Rock and it is a great sound from start to
finish.
First
track to grab your attention is – 45 Shakedown. A blistering blues
based number that will have you rocking out in no time at all. Groovy
lyrics that come straight from a crime movie from the 1930s though
matched with a modern hard rock twist. Heavy Glow embrace their
Classic Rock roots with relish and it sees a very different band seen
on their debut album. And that is a very good thing indeed. As Heavy
Glow have spent their time away from the limelight wisely and have
created a different side to their music.
Though
Hard Rock fans should not worry as the album has plenty of hard rock
riffs for you to check out. 2nd track – Look What You’re Doing To
Me bleeds pure delta-soul mixed with hard-rocking riffs that pack a
deep and very heavy soulful punch to the system. Front-man Jared
vocals make you feel alive as his vocals have a huge likeability
factor you cannot help digging.
3rd
track Mine All Mine – has a slight QOTSA feel but with more soul
and depth added to the mix. Heavy Glow show their appreciation and
love for a whole style of sounds and vibes on this track. Blues, Hard
Rock, Soul, Motown and even hints of Stoner Rock. It should not work
but it does and that is down to the huge talent involved with this
band.
4th
track – Fat Cat – is a track that harks back once again to the
legendary blues sound with snippets of swamp rock creeping in over
and over again. Though the track is a dark cautionary tale that could
easily describe the current financial crisis the world has recently
gone through and still is in some parts of the world.
The
band are on fire through out. They have written spellbinding lyrics
and melodies to capture the essence of a band destined for truly
great things. If you need more evidence, of how great this album is.
Check out tracks such as Domino, Nerve Endings, Got My Eye On You and
Headhunter, which appear on the 2nd half of the album.
Heavy
Glow prove why they are considered one of the hotly tipped
Blues/Stoner Rock bands to make strides in the music scene in 2014.
Heavy Glow have released the perfect summer album with Pearls &
Swine and Everything’s Fine. As they have blended so many vibes
that will appeal to all musical fans of the rock musical spectrum. It
truly is a stunning release that will have you coming back time and
time again.
Excellent.
End Of.
Thanks
to Blair at Purge Records for sending a promo for us to review.
Pearls & Swine and Everything Fine will be available to buy
from all good stockists from June 3rd 2014 on CD and DD.
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