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Chris Riemenschneider, Writer, Star Tribune
The Gleam's true grit
4/6/05 :: ...definitely not the typical kind of buzz band in the Twin Cities music scene nowadays... Read More...
Jack Sparks, Host of "The Other side of Country" WMGT-AM 1220
4/5/06 :: Look, they sing out of tune, they play out of tune, but there simply isn't a more Minnesotan band in the state right now... Read More...
10/30/05 :: The Gleam is the best band in Minneapolis. I know they can't sing or play their instruments, and half their songs are booze infested paeans to self-destruction that I should have outgrown like the Chiefs' Huddle Club, but I don't fucking care... Read More...
6/25/2005 :: It's comforting to know that there's a band in town that really couldn't give 3 shits... Read More...
Jim Walsh, Writer, City Pages
The Outsiders:
4/25/2006 :: ...just-released sophomore record, Lookout for Evils, is a great leap forward from Chisago County in terms of songwriting if not spirit, which is baked into their DNA... Read More...
6/8/2005 :: ...the scene is now 25 Reasons...:
So how'd you like the Gleam show? "Well, they were...drunk." Yeah, but did you like them? "They were drunk... Read More...
1/26/05 :: The Gleam: The Chisago County EP:
...the Gleam epitomizes what makes the land of 10,000 bands still tick... Read More...
Sumanth Gopinath, Writer, Twin Cities Daily Planet
12/29/05 :: Secular Urban Liberal, Beware "Country" Music!:
The Gleam’s music poignantly evokes one of the most important and under-discussed dichotomies in American modernity—the contrast between those ambitious souls who strive at all costs to compete in the great capitalist rat race, and those who sit it out and prefer to hover beneath the radar. Read More...
Andrea Myers, Writer, howwastheshow.com
10/2005 :: Ike Reilly Assasination w/ The Gleam:
...music that is played so fast and recklessly that they are in danger of falling apart at any minute... Read More...
Nathan Dean, Writer, Pulse of the Twin Cities
2/18/05 :: Local CD Reviews:
The Gleam's brand of kickin' guitar pickin' racket serves as a nice reminder that as long as young men are ready to strum acoustic guitars until the strings pop and their arms fatigue country rawk will live on! I'll raise a grain belt premium to that!... Read More...
Fred Friction - 88.1 - KDHX - St. Louis MO
"This recording is turpentine for a head wound & could very well serve as a staple gun for a broken heart."
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| When you hear it, you know it: the same undeniable spirit that was in the air the first time we heard Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, or Kat Bjelland exorcising herself into a mic, or Mason Jennings budding in his living-room practice space, or the Rhymesayers blooming in the Entry, or Melodious Owl lifting the Turf Club off its moorings at a show this past February. "The town is exploding," one barfly said that night, and ain't it the truth--what with the sudden hum of the Current and bands like the Gleam (as first heard on Jack Sparks's The Other Side of Country), who cut their teeth drinking and playing at a corner bar in rural Minnesota and are now poised to take the Cities by storm. The eight songs off this debut prove that alt-country's torrid affair with the land of sky-blue waters is alive and shit-kicking, so it's about time we all start referring to these guys the way their kick drum head does: The Goddamn Gleam. |
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