Glass Ceilings - 2015 - Track Review

 Harry Mcilroy - harrymcilroy100@gmail.com



Glass Ceilings 

"2015"


Glass Ceilings are an Indie pop band originating from Birmingham, England. After releasing a few singles and steadily growing their profile through confidently fiery live performances throughout 2019 the worldwide pandemic hit, an event that threatened to kill upcoming music acts stone dead. After taking most of 2020 off and going through a lineup change, Glass Ceilings return with the fantastically anthemic 2015, a single showcasing the bands obvious mainstream-ready talent for songwriting and lyricism alike.


Instantly setting the mood with a really pretty yet subtly melancholic guitar passage, 2015 is immediately impressively atmospheric. Indie and proud, this brightly dark track encapsulates the band working like a newly oiled machine. All the parts work together fantastically, as if any one element was missing it wouldn’t work nearly as well. The drums (played by Qemal Torra) are something of a highlight, having the perfect amount of weight and punch to cut through the mix and give the main guitarist the perfect canvas to paint over. Throughout the track these guitars build an intricate and ever-shifting rhythm, exemplified in the bridge to the final chorus. Reaching a fever-pitch of emotion, they build and build, nearly screaming before breaking into the final lines of the song. 


Managing to sound well beyond their years throughout the track, Glass Ceilings effortlessly glide into expressive vocal melodies ruminating on wasted youth and missing days gone by. Bursting into a brightly anthemic chorus in the vein of Catfish and the Bottlemen It seems like the band has hit on something very relevant here, commenting on the past on both the micro and macrocosmic. On a personal level, lead vocalist Lois Masters is commenting on the bittersweet feelings associated with teenage years or “wasted years”, and the blissful naivety that time contains. In a wider lens, this song could easily be referring to covid-19, reminiscing on a time prior to the endless lockdowns and isolation. Whichever is more personally relevant, the band delivers.



Listen here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8TxWwNqgyLTLmXXbI7UDug




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