Since 2013, Clementine Creevy has been releasing scintillatingly uncooked, off-kilter indie-pop below the moniker Cherry Glazerr. With every album, we journeyed with Creevy by way of one other chapter of her life because it tumbled forth in sticky tender guitar elements and weighted, sincere lyricism. Creevy is nothing if not confrontational, although the individual she confronts as a rule is herself. “I just always want to lead with my heart,” she tells AP from her residence in Los Angeles, including, “and that ends up making the best shit.” While her discography has floated from the worlds of noise pop to ‘90s grunge, Creevy’s intentional injection of herself, and her coronary heart, has but to waver. And it’s this signature intentionality that has resulted in the 4 years of pause since Creevy’s final album, Stuffed & Ready — years the artist has spent doing simply that, pausing. Rushing, relating to the inventive course of, holds little benefit for Creevy — and as soon as once more, her cautious diligence has paid off, and at present, listeners are eagerly reaping the rewards.
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Alongside co-producer Yves Rothman, Cherry Glazerr’s I Don’t Want You Anymore leans additional into rock than ever earlier than, with out shedding contact with Creevy’s emotional candidness — slightly, on this album, she simply embraces the splendidly unsettling depths of the human psyche, in actual time. While overuse and misguided context might have watered down the concept of an artist “finding” or reckoning with oneself, Creevy swiftly bursts the bubble of cliches with a pulsating tracklist that proves she is doing simply that, with grace. Cherry Glazerr’s newest triumph pulls from locations each sudden and universally relatable, from Gregg Araki movies to the COVID-19 pandemic, and drawing in artists like the Drums’ Jonny Pierce and Suzy Shinn, however whereas we’re simply diving in, Creevy is already gearing up for the subsequent one.
Congratulations on the album. How are you feeling about it?
I’m stoked. I love that it is popping out — it takes so lengthy to place the album out after you have completed truly recording it. But for some motive, so much of the songs are nonetheless hitting for me. I’m very proud and enthusiastic about this album particularly.
What feels completely different about this album?
Well, all this press has been popping out, and it’s fascinating to see in precise print what I mentioned, with my mouth. [Laughs.] I’m similar to, “Oh, my God, what was I saying?” That’s so embarrassing. But on that observe, I preserve saying that that is my “more mature album,” which actually makes me wish to make the subsequent one so fucking silly and immature and utterly fuck it up! Sorry, am I swearing an excessive amount of?
Go for it, swear much more. How would you describe this “maturity” that you simply really feel like you might be already attempting to maneuver away from?
I’m simply in a special section of life. It’s naturally going to be extra mature simply because I am maturing. But the music I make is at all times a mirrored image of the place I’m at in life, and what I’m going by way of. It’s humorous as a result of I was simply telling somebody that this album particularly would possibly sound prefer it’s the heaviest, darkest factor that I’ve made — and folks have even been like, “Whoa, it’s really heavy” — and I suppose that is true, however I additionally really feel like I was in a worse place mentally in my life when I was writing Stuffed & Ready, the one which I put out earlier than this one. I was going by way of a tricky interval throughout that point, and it was so much about feeling suffocated — and I really feel like on this album, I was popping out of so much of that and reckoning with myself. So though it looks as if the heaviest stuff, it’s been catharsis for me. And it isn’t about feeling suffocated, however the reverse of that. Really taking a tough have a look at myself and being truthful to myself.
Having spoken with so many artists about what winds up mirrored of their work, it appears that evidently most of the time it’s not when the ache is best that they’re making these heavy albums — which might be close to inconceivable — it’s after they’re shifting by way of it, reflecting on that ache or depth.
Yeah, that’s actually fascinating, since you’re emotionally blocked if you’re fucked up in your life, and yeah, you are going to make higher stuff if you really feel extra of a way of emotional freedom — if you’re higher in a position to get in contact with who you actually are and your actual feelings and your actual artistry.
Given the weight and depths of this album, what was your writing course of like?
I simply at all times wish to lead with my coronary heart, and that finally ends up making the finest shit. I’m a really therapeutic author. It’s all a type of remedy for me. I have a sophisticated relationship with myself. I went by way of a interval of gaslighting myself so much, as a result of I had gotten into that mode [of] hanging out with individuals who did that. I have been attempting to get out of that, and I suppose with that album, so much in these interviews I’ve gotten to the root of what I’m attempting to do with myself, which is simply be truthful.
“Touched You With My Chaos,” I had simply watched Gregg Araki’s movie Mysterious Skin, and it was actually affecting for some motive. I was simply in a spot in life the place I was creating an avoidant attachment fashion with myself, and hooking up with this man that I knew from center college and that was bizarre as adults, which was too humorous. I keep in mind sitting down, and the entire track got here to me without delay and poured out of me after watching that movie.
“Shattered” I wrote after I got here to Yves bawling, crying coping with household drama. Not even drama, actually, simply enthusiastic about my very own place in my household and familial bonds — and that one I wrote whereas I was crying in the room. Yves has seen me at my worst, and thru a lot shit. I really feel like I actually write when inspiration hits, and I do not actually attempt to power it. I do suppose that makes me a bit of a sluggish author. I simply do not actually see the level of doing it a special approach.
What variety of music have you ever been listening to these days?
I’ve been actually into Guided by Voices. ‘80s stuff. The factor about it’s, I really feel like there’s been a lot speak about the ‘90s, and folks inform me so much that my music appears like that period, which is not even what I’m going for essentially. I perceive that, particularly with [songs like “Sugar”] on the new album. But I’m not closely influenced by the ‘90s — and I’ll be sincere with you, I’m probably not a nerd about music stuff. I do not actually know the information. I similar to the songs that I hear and suppose are cool. Rather a lot of my pals are fucking music nerds, and I love them for that. Oh, additionally, I actually like PinkPantheress and Bad Bunny.
With this album popping out, are you somebody who’s excited to get on the highway — or dreading that?
I truly like touring! I love the manic vitality of it and the excessive highs and the low lows. I really feel like I have some of the finest reminiscences of being on the highway.
What is your favourite touring story?
It was so magical I do not know if it was actual. In 2016 or ‘17, we had been driving in the South, perhaps close to Memphis, on a time off. We had been all actually hungover, and I suppose some individuals had been on mushrooms… It was drizzling, and there have been these rolling hills, and 5 or 6 of us climbed this fence into an open area and all took a nap. [We] collectively all wakened hours later and acquired again in the van.
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