The Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files: Sweating It Out With The Glands
Time for another installment of the Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files, where we raid our archives in search of a lost gem.
Artist: The Glands Album: The Glands, 2000 What happened: The second album from this Athens, Ga. group was doomed from the start: Not only was it released on the ever-so-iffy Velocette Records, but it’s full of the sort of shambling, casually crafted guitar-pop that radio directors and magazine editors didn’t know what to do with at the time. If it were to have come out this year, The Glands would have topped the Hype Machine in about three weeks. Why it should have been a hit: Fourteen songs, with nary a miss among them: “When I Laugh” is pure chugging bubblegum, while “Soul InspIration” sounds like a cough-medicine come-down:
The Glands – When I Laugh [MP3, link removed]
The Glands – Lovetown [MP3, link removed]
The Glands – Soul Inspiration [MP3, link removed]
