Life Is Not a Lesson

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Life Is Not a Lesson
Glitterer - Life Is Not a Lesson.jpg
Studio album by
Glitterer
ReleasedFebruary 26, 2021 (2021-02-26)
RecordedMarch–May 2020
StudioKingston, Pennsylvania
Genre
Length21:40
Label Anti-
Producer Ned Russin
Glitterer chronology
Looking Through the Shades
(2019)		Life Is Not a Lesson
(2021)		Fantasy Four
(2022)
Singles from Life Is Not a Lesson
  1. "Are You Sure?"
    Released: December 9, 2020 [1]
  2. "Didn't Want It"
    Released: January 13, 2021 [2]
  3. "Life Is Not a Lesson"
    Released: February 11, 2021 [3]

Life Is Not a Lesson is the second studio album by American rock musical project Glitterer, which was at the time the solo project of Ned Russin of the band Title Fight. [4] released by Anti-. The album has received positive reviews from critics and consists of shoegaze, [5] [6] grunge, [5] and hardcore punk. [6]

Contents

Reception

Dave Beech of Clash Music scored this album a 7 out of 10, calling the music, "intense, claustrophobic and often cathartic". [5] In Kerrang! , Mischa Pearlman gave Life Is Not a Lesson a 3 out of 5, stating that the music act shows promise, but that this album needs more length and variation. [6] Spin 's Danielle Chelosky characterized this release as "uncomfortable and eccentric" as well as "a hidden opportunity to start a conversation, and to invite others to inhabit Russin's space". [7]

Track listing

All songs written by Glitterer

  1. "Bodies" – 1:48
  2. "Are You Sure?" – 1:46
  3. "Try Harder Still" – 2:24
  4. "Little Backward Glance" – 1:23
  5. "How a Song Should Go" – 1:18
  6. "The End" – 1:13
  7. "Didn't Want It" – 1:59
  8. "Indeed" – 1:27
  9. "Birdsong" – 1:28
  10. "I Made the Call" – 2:31
  11. "Fire" – 2:00
  12. "Life Is Not a Lesson" – 2:28

Personnel

Glitterer

Additional personnel

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Breihan, Tom (December 9, 2020). "Glitterer Announces New Album 'Life Is Not A Lesson', Shares New Single "Are You Sure?"". New Music. Stereogum . Retrieved March 3, 2024.
  2. ↑ DeVille, Chris (January 13, 2021). "Glitterer Shares New Song "Didn't Want It"". New Music. Stereogum . Retrieved March 3, 2024.
  3. ↑ Helman, Peter (February 11, 2021). "Glitterer – "Life Is Not A Lesson"". New Music. Stereogum . Retrieved March 3, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Glitterer". Spotify . Glitterer. Retrieved April 9, 2024. Initially, and for some time, it was a solo project: a man and his laptop. ... Four records, including two full-length albums on Anti-, were released in that one-guy period. ... Ned Russin ... started Glitterer in 2017, about a year after his previous band, Title Fight, stopped touring.
  5. 1 2 3 Beech, Dave (February 25, 2021). "Glitterer – Life Is Not A Lesson". Reviews. Clash Music . Retrieved March 1, 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 Pearlman, Mischa (February 26, 2021). "Album review: Glitterer – Life Is Not A Lesson". Reviews. Kerrang! . ISSN   0262-6624 . Retrieved March 1, 2024.
  7. ↑ Chelosky, Danielle (February 26, 2021). "Glitterer's Life Is Not a Lesson Is an Existential, Idiosyncratic Party". Reviews. Spin . ISSN   0886-3032 . Retrieved March 1, 2024.
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