Gloop is a Noise-rock/Post-hardcore band from Baltymore, Maryland.
Not that heavy (in a good way), with some melodic and well built
parts and breaks, there is definitly more in Gloop than in your average noise-rock band.
Junk Drawer released in 2017, despite a raw recording, alreay got all the diversity and angry high pitched vocals that will be Gloop identity.
From somewhere no too far from screamo in Sad Man Meal, they bring us back around DC with I Heard Her Talking and An Offering.
From somewhere no too far from screamo in Sad Man Meal, they bring us back around DC with I Heard Her Talking and An Offering.
Overall a very promising first release despite Blueberries for Supper which is way too poppy for me (guys... this guitar solo, really?).
End of 2017, the band records The Tourist, which will be released in June 2018 on Grimoire Records. 8 songs with a great sound, Gloop's first album is a success.
The vocals are still high pitched but more balanced, the songs are still angry but with an extra kind of crazy with a bit of an out-of-control vibe.
Now far beyond the borders of the noise-rock genre, Gloop keeps making you discover the depth of each song, layers after layers, every time you listen to the album.
And it brings us to now, or more precisely to the end of last september, when
Smiling Lines was released on Grimoire and Buzzhowl Records.
Same recipe as with The Tourist, Gloop's second full length got great songs with a great sound. The singer now compeltely masters his voice and is able to go up and down, deep and high, crazy and angry... Here is what is said about it on their bandcamp page,
and I could not say better:
"Whether sung, screamed, or
falsetto, his vocals are exclusively high-pitched, sounding like they
are at the top of his range, sounding like a man physically straining.
Within those high pitches comes a range of strange and ambiguous
emotional tenors. Gianninoto always sounds manic, but manic is a level
of energy, not an emotion. Is he feeling pained? Enraged? Sad?
Terrified? Excited? Playful? Delighted? It sounds like bits of all of
those by turns, sometimes with jarringly rapid transitions between them.
If you heard someone vocalizing like this on the bus, you probably
wouldn’t sit by them, yet if you have a heart, you’d feel for them and
hope someone is looking out for them."
Smiling Lines is a good album, with a deep and complex expression of mixed feelings which requires multiple listenings to be able to appreciate them all.
With a release a year, the trio doesn't look tired and is probably
working on 2020 release...
Which will probably be great but in which I would suggest to inject a little dose of surprise...
You can listen to Gloop and a lot of punk songs on Rien à Faire #5.
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