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Gladyss Patches
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Vinnie Apicella
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 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 which
is to say 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 they, GP, 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, somewhat 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, and "A Wish This Simple," step back, step
away,
leave a while, unreality, a nice concept, and so why then does something
so simple always seem to be so difficult anyway? Stop the world, shut
the lights, and close your eyes, look like old Gladyss getting' ready to
groove.
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