Forever is the second album by Chicago groove rockers Glyders. It's first with the band's new drummer Joe Seger who Glyders main duo of Joshua Condon and Eliza Weber believe has completed their band perfectly. I won't argue, this album sounds like a super tight unit.
They recorded the album at there own Studio G in Humboldt Park, Chicago before Cooper Crain mixed it at Sweat Loge in Pilsen.
The album opens with the super funky guitar break of Super Glyde that adds some heavy psyche sounds while sounding like early 70's freaky psychedelic funk, that eventually adds a Status Quo style beat before the vocals come in to tell us about a bad bad feeling they have, that can only be exorcized by this funky driving music.
Moon Eyes has the feel of a calm bucolic early 70's hippy song for all the moon children who are into holding hands and gazing at the Moon at every opportunity, while sounding like Junior's Eyes squatting close to Battersea Power station in the years it was a wasteland.
Stone Shadow takes a Bolan boogie riff and adds some cool breaks, while we find out how you lose it all, while lurking in the Stone Shadow afraid you'll be obliterated by the wobbly sounds that accompany the drum solo and guitar interjections.
Hard Ride pulsates with reverb and the feeling it could go insane at any moment, Joshua making clear what a Hard Ride to the future we are on, guitars burn up the tarmac, bass sounds like tyres rumbling forever on a 6 line highway to a world beyond billionaire robber barons at a super steady 60 MPH, by all the ancient rocks of Free and the Allmans legacy of the past is being blasted one cooking riff at a time into the future.
New Realm of slow funky blues, a place that somehow makes sense, languid beat, just building a vibe of inclusivity, for everyone to groove along with them, when the middle bell rings they crank up the gears and head out back onto the freeway once more, this is deep driving blues, perfect to hit the empty roads at 2 am and blast it out, while you head on down that road with some elasticity to the way the strings are getting stretched and bent.
RTZ is a short interlude leading to Steppin/Tell Me About The Rabbit well he's not as big a hippy as The Rabbits Siren talked about at the start of the 70's, but this does re-work a bedroom funk riff, while they wonder who is in charge of this place. In the middle there is a cataclysmic chord strike that mutates the tune somewhat, into a looser vibe with the foot down on the accelerator, who are they trying to outrun, with an detour into Hendrix breakdowns and running Steppenwolf blues running or should it be hopping across the fields.
The album closes with Thousand Miles that has the feel of a come down, almost country rock song for saying fare de well, you will be gone gone gone a thousand Miles away, it ain't likely you're coming back, or is it, jangly guitars help to cloud his indecision.
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