Cherry Glazerr
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Sunday, March 10 at 8 pm PDT
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Cherry Glazerr released their explosive full-length album Apocalipstick on Inauguration Day in 2017. You might
think the two tumultuous years since would have driven the band toward even more explicitly topical
commentary. But as singer/guitarist/founder Clementine Creevy began writing the first of some thirty songs that
would make up the new Stuffed & Ready, she found unexpected inspiration by turning inward. That meant
leading her band somewhere new and writing songs that would reveal aspects of herself she realized she’d
once concealed.
Apocalipstick sizzled with Creevy’s confidence, vision and fiercely idiosyncratic personality. Stuffed & Ready
announces Creevy as a songwriter newly tempered and strengthened by coming to terms with her own
uncertainty confusion and anger. It’s her go-for-broke honesty that gives Stuffed & Ready its power and
gravity. “I am telling my story of how I feel and where I am in life,” she says. “I’m exploring my own self-doubt.
I’m confused about what happiness is and I’m searching for my place in the world. With Apocalipstick, I was an
over-confident teenager trying to solve the world’s problems. With Stuffed & Ready, I’m a much more weary
and perhaps cynical woman who believes you need to figure your own self out first.”
Now a three-piece with drummer Tabor Allen and bassist Devin O’Brien (synth player Sasami Ashworth has
moved on to her own solo work), the band made a first version of Stuffed early in 2018 with much-loved
engineer and musician John Vanderslice, who they “adore deeply as a human and friend.” Together they
concocted a “very live sounding, self-produced album, which was a very cool experience, but wasn’t exactly
what I wanted to put into the ether at this time,” says Creevy. “So I put that aside and called up Carlos (de la
Garza, who co-produced Apocalipstick).” I decided that I wanted a producer to push me, I wanted to be
questioned, to rip my songs apart and look at their guts and pour myself open again. And I wanted it to sound
massive.”
For six full months, they’d be at the studio by 9:01am, ready to write and record all day and sometimes into the
night. Each song had to speak for itself, and if it didn’t, they’d scrap it or change it, says Creevy: “Sometimes
I’d lay on the floor for like an hour and then pop up like, ‘I got it! I GOT IT!’” She’d named the album on a solo
drive through the California desert, inspired once she was free from all distraction. She made the album the
same way, eliminating anything that couldn’t answer a single simple question: is this really me? It was
exhausting, but somehow joyful, too, and the result is Cherry Glazerr’s most daring and intimate music yet.
“It felt like I was being more vulnerable than I wanted to be at times,” she says. “I’ve been feeling the need to
explain my feelings ... not just state them, but search for why I feel the way I do in the most honest way
possible. This is what separates this album from its predecessor. I’m trying to stop myself from obfuscation,
which I used to hide behind, but not anymore. I’m writing with intent.”
It's that clarity of intent that makes Stuffed such a raw and resonant listen where Creevy has never sounded
more powerful. In “Ohio,” she attacks feelings of isolation and