Amazon.co.uk Review
At the vanguard of hardcores evolution stand Glassjaw: five Long Island-born straight-edgers sporting a firmly progressive approach to punk-rock, and a fantastic second album in the shape of
Worship and Tribute. Frontman Daryl Palumbo is the bands immediate touchstone: on lyrically adventurous songs like "The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports" and "Trailer Park Jesus" he wages war on American cultural orthodoxy, his rocky, undulating vocal morphing between a raw-nerve croon and a tortured shriek sharp enough to cut glass. Where the band truly differs from their nu-metal and conventional hardcore peers is in the arrangements, however: tracks like "Mu Empire" and "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss" combine
Faith No More-style anthemicism with a complex post-hardcore structure that could put
Fugazi to shame, while "Ape Dos Mil" reins in the pure noise, guitarist! s Justin Beck and Todd Weinstock turning down and wringing twisted melodies and shimmering walls of ambience out of their instruments as Palumbo weaves a tale of obsessional love in a high, shivery vibrato. Theyre a thoroughly uncompromising band, but Glassjaw are as fearlessly individual as
At the Drive-In, and every bit as good.
Worship and Tribute presents the new hardcore heroes-in-waiting.
--Louis Pattison
CD Description
This is the follow up to Glassjaw's 2000 debut album 'Everything You Wanted To Know About Silence'. Produced by Ross Robinson, 'Worship And Tribute' is heavier, more mature and darker in tone. Emphasis is placed on their musical influencessuch as Faith No More, Joy Division and Bad Brains. This ultimately makes the album more varied than other post-hardcore/emo records.