Life is Not a Lesson is Glitterer’s second full-length album, featuring Ned Russin, bassist/vocalist of seminal hardcore-punk bandTitle Fight. This time Ned has produced therecord himself, notwit standing somerecording and performance help from his twin brother, Ben, and some other friends, as well as mixing and mastering by Arthur Rizk (Code Orange, Power Trip). It may surpriseyou to hear that, irrespective of worldly doom and gloom, the new songs are even catchierand bigger-sounding than those from his 2019 release, Looking Through the Shades. With roomier drums and more electric-guitars-per-square-inch than ever, Life is Not a Lesson has a way of evoking an alternate-universe version of Guided By Voices, one with a hardcore-punk background. Life is Not a Lesson proves to be a rigorous reckoningwith the life of the mind at a time when there’s not much life outside the mind.
- 1. Bodies
- 2. Are You Sure?
- 3. Try Harder Still
- 4. Little Backward Glance
- 5. How a Song Should Go
- 6. The End
- 7. Didn't Want It
- 8. Indeed
- 9. Birdsong
- 10. I Made the Call
- 11. Fire
- 12. Life is Not a Lesson
