The Glass Intact
The Glass Intact is the second album by the Champaign, Illinois band Sarge. It was released in 1998 on Mud Records.[1]
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Released | 1998[1] | |||
Length | 39:16[1] | |||
Label | Mud[1] | |||
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The album was somewhat of a breakout hit, getting a feature-length review at Salon.com and the Village Voice, and causing the band to become a 1998 "Hot Band" in Rolling Stone as well as being one of Spin Magazine's "98 for '98."
Reception
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AllMusic | [1] |
Spin | (8/10)[2] |
Jason Ankeny of AllMusic declared the album to be "a kind of apotheosis of '90s-era girl-punk", finding the album combined the "emotional intensity of Sleater-Kinney, the melodic aggression of Team Dresch, and the sheer exuberance of Cub, yet their best trick of all is that they sound like an absolute original."[1] Ankeny noted that Elizabeth Elmore "a gifted composer, an acute lyricist, and a nakedly honest vocalist", concluding that the album "is at heart a rock & roll album in the classic sense: cathartic, impassioned, and vividly alive."[1] Stephanie Zacharek of Spin also noted the albums debt to riot grrl music with its "explosive emotional intensity", finding the album "nervy, hopelessly seductive and hell-bent for trouble and heartache, The Glass Intact peers at the world through a very dark lens - but the sun, with its menace and warmth is never far from view.[2]
Track listing
- Stall
- A Torch
- Beguiling
- Charms and Feigns
- Homewrecker
- Half as Far
- I Took You Driving
- Fast Girls
- The First Morning
- Put in the Reel
- To Keep You Trained
Credits
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[3]
- Elizabeth Elmore - guitars, vocals, piano
- Rachel Switzky - bass
- Chad Romanski - drums
- Pat Cramer - additional guitars on tracks 1, 3, 4, and 5
- Matt Allison - engineer, producer
- Sarge - producer
- Brendan Gamble - recording engineer on tracks 3, 5, and 9
References
- Ankeny, Jason. "The Glass Intact". AllMusic. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
- Zacharek, Stephanie (June 1998). "Reviews". Spin. p. 135.
- The Glass Intact (Media notes). Sarge. Mud Records. MUD CD 028.
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