glasshouse red spider mite + sunglasz vendor

Glasshouse Red Spider Mite: Growing up together in Devon, and initially forced together by the encouragement of a secondary school music teacher, Glasshouse Red Spider Mite eventually began in 2023, musically reconnecting after the dissolution of various other projects.

Recorded by producer Louis Milburn in the back of an audio equipment shop - ‘Everyone Loves You’ begins with a guitar snaking its way around the chords for well over a minute before finding secure footing, at which point Ethan’s spectral vocals creep in for the first verse, building tension with hushed, brushed drums, until finally the release of a perfect chorus, hooky as it is beautiful.

The thread that ties it all together is tightly crafted songwriting and arrangement, the fact that the band have been playing together in different forms for half their lives is clear from a listen - they have the confidence to leave space when it’s needed, and comfortably locking in to precisely shaped crescendos and syncopated forward drives, sounding like one unified musical voice at all times.

Suglasz Vendor: Formed from Bristol's avant-garde underground (Bingo Fury, Ex Agent, Grandchild), Sunglasz Vendor sees devout experimentalists embrace the eternal comforts of rock radio hooks, pensive emo, and Kerrang! teenage angst. The result is a daringly skittish attempt at nostalgia; a classic guitar/bass/drums trio where all the elements are grating up against each other, teetering on the edge between the Guitar Hero canon and free-form anarchy.