No! You have no right to be this astonishing, SMA! How dare you? I bought this LP on cassette in 1990, I know it. For SST, Touch and Go, and early Sub Pop completists. You know the sound: Blind Idiot God, Slint, Minutemen, Sebadoh... Listening to the local college radio station on a cheap radio, while lying in your bedroom, writing love letters to the girl with blue hair from your history class, hundreds of show flyers pinned to your wall, piles of MRR, Thrasher and Flipside on the floor.

Have you ever heard some jaded punk say, “there just isn’t any good music being made today!”? I sure have! Now, I am extremely fond and sentimental when it comes to the music I devoted myself to during my formative years, but to say that nobody is making good music today is just plain goofy. Do you need some concrete evidence? Well, here ya go, fathead! Gluebag is the genuine article. The shit supreme! The cat’s pajamas! God’s balls! You should start with the Still Confused LP and go from there. It’s a masterpiece, truly. Gluebag is, of course, completely original and dripping with integrity, but there is so much to love if you happen to be a fan of Dead Moon, The Velvet Underground, Mark Lanegan, Nirvana, etc. This is some serious rock and roll, kids. Buy it or live out the rest of your sad existence in a state of cold, lonely despair.

Magical. Evocative. Gorgeous.