Gluer is
a new punk band from Stockholm, Sweden, which was born like a "playful pandemic project" during the Covid lockdown (even
if Sweden's been really easy on the lockdowns compared to almost all
other European countries) just like a whole generation of new groups actually. Fortunately (and hopefully) these dark times are behind us (until next time!) and Gluer's been kicking it on stage a few times already over the past months, finding an enthusiastic show-craving public.
Featuring members from several other punk and garage punk acts from the Swedish
capital (Gestures,
Dead Geins
and the furious
Wails, go check them out), Gluer is not the first try of these four
young men and benefits from a serious experience you can easily feel in
the only two tracks we have access to. Despite its (very)
short discography (for the moment), Gluer sounds by far like the
most accomplished project of all those mentioned above in my (very) humble
opinion.
That tune rips right?
Indeed Gluer has found the perfect balance between punk, hardcore and a
little bit of rock'n roll: it's catchy as hell, it's fun, it's fast and
it's furious without falling into the raging wall of d-beat noise a lot of
modern hardcore bands tend to adopt these days. It makes me think of a
slower mix between the best
Wilful Boys
tracks and the more USHC-influenced side of Swedish hardcore punk (Regulations,
UX Vileheads,
Damaged Head
etc...). Yes it's that beautiful...
This one is just a pure HIT. So catchy, so energetic and so silly and funny as the same time, what else do you want?
These guys mention bands like Armor, Beta Boys, Lumpy and the Dumpers and Ex-cult as influences (American bands only, I notice) and yes there is definitely a lot of those great hardcore bands' energy in Pumping The Iron, but contrary to all of them (except for Ex-cult ok), this song has a little "clear" side, a more punk than hardcore side (just the right amount) that makes it just perfect.
I'm a big fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger as an actor (a lot less as a political figure) and in a way he's managed to make his bodybuilding career to not look completely like a big heap of stupid shit (to me at least, which is quite a challenge for any kind of bodybuilding activity) thanks to his movies, he's simply become a cool pop culture character. Anyway that's cool AND silly AND fun to see him star in a killer punk track video-clip and I love it!
According to the band's members themselves (who were nice enough to
answer a few of my nosy questions) these two tracks are just a little
appetizer before the real deal, an EP AND a LP in the not too
distant future. Vic, aka Sick Vic (Gluer's drummer,
Gestures' vocalist and player of (?) something in
Dead Geins), is also the founding member of
Bad Beat Audio, a DIY association/label which organizes punk shows in Stockholm and
will probably release a few killer records very soon. The rest of the
band is probably deeply involved in BBA too and the coming EP (which should be recorded in a few weeks) should be out on BBA whereas the LP will be released by Push My Buttons from Stockholm (like Gestures but also like the early, and best, Viagra Boys records and Henry Fiats Open Sore for example) and Svart Ljud.
Ok I stop here that's a lot (too many?) words for a band with two tracks only, but at least you know now how excited I am to hear more from Gluer!
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