It starts on this one note, and then it ends at the octave of the same note. So, that riff means a lot to me, because I came up with it on the road. I was just vibing it so hard and just loving it. I bet the venue wanted to fucking kill me, because I made everybody come onstage and play it with me for like an hour. I was in Ohio, and we were doing soundcheck, and the riff from “Ohio” just came out of me. Is there a song on Stuffed & Ready that came out of fiddling around on guitar? That’s how a lot of my songs started out. But mostly these melodies just pop into my head first, and then I put them down on the guitar. It usually doesn’t happen to me while I’m fiddling around with the guitar. That’s why I think a lot of our music is kind of riff-oriented. I put it into voice memos, and then I translate that onto the guitar. I always start with a melody that pops into my head. “It was certainly competitive, because I was the youngest, by like five years, and I was one of only two women in a class of 100.” getting ready for her upcoming tour-which kicked off in Bristol, England, on February 2-for a fast-paced chat that covered a lot of ground, including lessons, gear, and the leitmotifs of her craft. You need to figure your own self out first.” PG recently caught up with Creevy, who was at home in L.A. “With Apocalipstick, I was an over-confident teenager trying to solve the world’s problems,” she admits. Lyrically, Stuffed & Ready is the lens through which Creevy seeks to reconcile her own confusion and anger-an admitted response to the contemporary political climate. They possess a vivid, almost cinematic, intensity forged from Creevy’s musical ideas. “Daddi,” which is in heavy rotation at indie-rock satellite radio channel SiriusXMU, and “Wasted Nun” represent the culmination of those agreed-upon melodic tendencies. We agree on melodies, and that is hard to find.” “And we have similar melodic tendencies, so that comes in handy a lot. “We work closely with Carlos,” she explains. De la Garza also worked on Apocalipstick, so their familiarity seemed to inspire Creevy. They then took those tunes to producer Carlos de la Garza’s Music Friends studio in Eagle Rock, California, where they really started to hone the material that would become Stuffed & Ready. When it was time to track, Creevy, Allen, and O’Brien first went to San Francisco, where they cut a batch of songs with producer John Vanderslice at his analog Tiny Telephone Recording. And so, I was saving all of these little bits and pieces, all of these weird little links, that were going to become songs.” “Because we played 200 shows in 2017, I was often writing little bits and pieces on the road,” she explains. Lineup changes obviously present challenges, but it’s been evident from the band’s inception that Creevy’s confidence, vision, and fiercely idiosyncratic personality are the primary creative forces helming Cherry Glazerr.įor Stuffed & Ready, Creevy started compiling songs while on tour in support of Apocalipstick. Despite the outward heroics, internally, there were growing pains to endure, culminating with the departure of original bassist Sean Redman (now with the Buttertones), who has been replaced by Devin O’Brien. Pitchfork praised Apocalipstick’s “shredding jams, furious howls, and self-aware swagger”-an apt description for a work by a young, self-empowered, professed feminist eager to share her point of view with the world. The album further developed the dark, often-chaotic-yet-melodic sounds unleashed on Haxel Princess. “It just has a great flow to it,” she says.Īpocalipstick followed in 2017, on indie label Secretly Canadian, and included Creevy’s current drummer Tabor Allen, replacing her high-school friend Hannah Uribe. Those songs quickly caught the attention of Burger Records cofounder Sean Bohrman, who would later release Creevy’s full-length 2014 debut, Haxel Princess, under the moniker Cherry Glazerr, a name inspired by KCRW/NPR radio reporter Chery Glaser, because Creevy thought she had the perfect band name. Listening to Stuffed & Ready, it’s evident that the Los Angeles native has evolved and matured musically by leaps since she first wrote, performed, and uploaded a small batch of post-punk, garage-rock songs to SoundCloud in 2012 under the moniker Clembutt, when she was just 15. “I realized that I’ve developed a good ear over the past few years. “I think for the first time ever, I actually wasn’t surprised when I heard the music that I’d written.” Creevy is referring to the songs on Cherry Glazerr’s new album, Stuffed & Ready, and she adds that the process of writing and recording music was much easier than on previous releases. “You know what’s funny?” asks Clementine Creevy, in a way that reflects a self-awareness and self-assuredness that seems to transcend her years.
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