Gliss Glistens

For those of you out there that miss the Jesus and Mary Chain have I got news for you. Their spirit lives on in Los Angeles band Gliss. This power-trio make such a fuzzed out feedback drenched racket that you'd swear your ears were going to jump off the side of your head and run away. Is that a bad thing? Not in the least as Gliss are absolutely amazing in every sense of the word. Gliss' album Devotion Implosionout Raveonettes the Raveonettes and makes more noise than the Reid brothers have in the last 20 years. It's a stunningly chaotic record that sounds like it might cave in on itself but never quite does. Chords and waves of guitars riffs assault your senses from every angle but when your brain processes it all the result is something that sound incredibly gorgeous.

This little trio are distorted, raw, unhinged and really really good and Devotion Implosion as a result is ridiculously addictive. You might think that with guitars tuned into space, distortion pedals on overdrive and hazy, lazy vocals would sound like the worst idea ever, but the way these guys package all this bedlam is amazing. They make it work and shape all of this discordance into the spacey, drugged out trip to the Andromeda galaxy that is Devotion Implosion.

Listening to Devotion Implosion is like combining the best night you've ever had out with the worst morning after ever and setting it to music. This is a record that ebbs and flows with peaks and valleys of pandemonium and quiet chaos. From the sheets of noise that cover the adrenaline rush of, "Morning Light," to the self explanatory, "Sleep," Devotion Implosion is masterfully brilliant. If the Raveonettes wanted to be the Jesus and Mary Chain a couple of years back, Gliss clearly want to be them even more. Yeah sure they mix girl and boy vocals but the overwhelming sense of anarchy and melody is distinctly rooted in their British counterparts. Gliss are something special and Devotion Implosion is quite easily one of my favorite records of 2009. Essential!