Joe Glass – “It’s No Wonder” [Video]

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Joe Glass Kicks Off Snakewards With the Slow-Burning “It’s No Wonder”

The Sharp Pins bassist announces an expanded reissue of his out-of-print cassette, out November 13 via K/Perennial Records, and the first of three new songs is a quietly irresistible ballad.

Joe Glass has been the bassist for Sharp Pins, but Snakewards makes clear he has been sitting on a whole other thing. The record is an expanded reissue of his sold-out cassette, arriving November 13 via K/Perennial Records with three new songs added to the original, and “It’s No Wonder” is the first of them: a slow-churning ballad that locks into a groove and refuses to leave it. If you have been following the K/Perennial run lately, you already know the neighborhood this lives in, and Glass fits there naturally without sounding like anyone else on the label.

Snakewards is jangle-punk guitars and earworms and what the press release aptly calls “playful woozy pop,” drawing on the best of above-ground and underground rock without feeling like a catalog exercise. The reference points are Apples in Stereo, Golomb, early Wilco, and you can hear all of them without losing track of Glass’s own voice. We reviewed the original release and came away convinced; that review holds up just as well now.

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