Openly boisterous and hypnotically effervescent, various rock artist Clementine Creevy, higher often called Cherry Glazerr, displays on the creation of her trustworthy fourth album ‘I Don’t Need You Anymore,’ self-discovery, and development. 

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Unabashedly herself, Clementine Creevy, frontwoman and creator of different rock band Cherry Glazerr, has all the time dove in headfirst into her music.

Starting her musical journey at 15-years-old and releasing music underneath the title ClemButt on SoundCloud, Creevy has all the time maintained that music is “ an involuntary response” for her. After writing her debut monitor “Grilled Cheese” in her childhood bed room and recording it with pals, Creevy turned a Soundcloud sensation – amassing 200,000 streams on her first single.

A now 26-year-old Creevy joins our Zoom interview by way of her iPhone, sitting on the ground of her dwelling studio sporting an AC/DC graphic tee to speak about her wildly profitable fourth album I Don’t Need You Anymore, launched September 29 by way of Secretly Canadian.

The singer’s 11-track fourth album is gritty, boisterous and immersive because it takes you thru quite a lot of soundscapes. From thrashing tracks like “Comfortable Like A Flower” and “Touched By Your Chaos” to dreamy and transcendent tracks like “Golden” and “Unhealthy Behavior.”

I don’t need the ache and chaos
Of what I’ve happening
By no means make issues how I would like
Daggers in my coronary heart
Shut my eyes within the solar
Slashing the tires of my very own automotive
Sorry to the folks that I sucked into my world
Touched you with my chaos
I by no means needed love
I by no means needed love

– “Eat You Like a Capsule,” Cherry Glazerr

Atwood Journal caught up with Creevy following the foremost success of I Don’t Need You Anymore to debate SoundCloud rappers, the fun of collaborating with Yves Rothman (of Yves Tumor), and musical catharsis.

I’ve all the time tried to be as true to myself as I can. As a result of I really feel like I’ve devoted my life to my artwork, I don’t see any cause to not be totally trustworthy on a regular basis. And so each day, I’m making an attempt to be extra trustworthy to myself.

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A CONVERSATION WITH CHERRY GLAZERR

Atwood Journal: Hello, Clem! How are you doing put up album launch craziness?

Cherry Glazerr: It’s been good. I’ve been getting numerous candy responses and messages in regards to the album. So I’m comfortable that persons are connecting to it. I’m simply comfortable it’s out! I’m already engaged on the subsequent one although.

You simply maintain rolling! What’s been inspiring you to maintain creating?

Cherry Glazerr: With this final album I positively felt like this was one thing I wanted to say for myself. It was an announcement and my entire coronary heart. And now I’m simply considering of shifting ahead from that. It feels just like the pure development to start out engaged on the subsequent factor. I’m additionally simply all the time writing.

The album has been extensively critically acknowledged. Is that one thing you anticipated?

Cherry Glazerr: You already know, I don’t actually take into consideration that stuff that a lot, truthfully. I’m excited that it made the rounds and that it’s being heard by extra individuals who can connect with it. And who it could actually contact. All I would like, as an artist, is to make issues that imply one thing to different folks. In order many individuals as it could actually attain is sweet for me.

That makes a lot sense particularly since you’ve been releasing because you had been about 15 years outdated. You’ve been creating these bridges for folks for therefore lengthy. Do you bear in mind what the catalyst was for delving headfirst into connecting with folks by your music?

Cherry Glazerr: I’ve been creating music ever since I used to be born principally (laughs) After I was 5 I began writing little songs after which I picked up the guitar at eleven. It’s only a pure factor for me. It seems like an involuntary response. It simply kind of comes out of me. After I was somewhat child everybody was like ‘She’s a very good singer’ and my mother can be like, ‘Yeah, she sings issues throughout the home.’ I simply noticed somewhat video of me as a 5 yr outdated and I’m simply operating round the home and making up this elaborate story and forcing my mother to hearken to it. I’ve simply all the time been performative and have all the time had the will to create artwork. I believe all of us do! To a sure extent. I’ve simply been fortunate sufficient to have gotten the chance to do it as a profession.

What was the primary track that you simply bear in mind writing it and considering, “This must be out on the planet”?

Cherry Glazerr: I bear in mind after I had made “Grilled Cheese,” I had been listening to numerous Al Inexperienced. I don’t know if anybody would ever put these two collectively *snigger* however I used to be making an attempt to repeat these guitar sounds. It was numerous easy minor chords and that become “Grilled Cheese.” I wrote it in my room and I believed it was cheeky and it sounded good to me. After which I bought along with my pal Paige [Stark] and she or he performed drums on it. After which I bought along with my pal Joel [Jerome] and he recorded it after which we put it out.

That one and “Teenage Lady” I did in the identical session with Paige and her pal Luke [Macdonald] performed bass. And so they had been type of like my musical mother and father. They had been simply folks within the music scene who had been older than me they usually had been type of my mentors. Then Paige was like, ‘I wish to get you along with Joel’ and he recorded the primary music that I ever did. Initially I glided by Clembutt after which I put that up on SoundCloud and it began to flow into. SoundCloud is the place I bought essentially the most consideration. After which Burger Information hit me about placing out the tape. However I assume “Grilled Cheese” was possibly the primary one the place I used to be like, ‘I can see myself performing this.’

So what I am listening to is that you are a SoundCloud rapper?

Cherry Glazerr: [laughs] Principally! It’s type of humorous as a result of I do owe all the things to SoundCloud, which is basically humorous. It’s simply me and rappers principally.

Since Cherry Glazerr’s genesis you’ve been releasing these very trustworthy songs and after I was studying stuff you’ve mentioned about this album you shared that that is your most mature and most trustworthy album. What do you suppose makes this album your purest kind in comparison with your previous releases?

Cherry Glazerr: I believe I’ve all the time tried to be as true to myself as I can. As a result of I really feel like I’ve devoted my life to my artwork, I don’t see any cause to not be totally trustworthy on a regular basis. And so each day, I’m making an attempt to be extra trustworthy to myself.  And that hopefully comes by in my work. I really feel like I realized a lot musically and was influenced by a lot since my final album in 2019 and I used to be actually proud to have the ability to channel all of these new issues that I realized into this album. And in order that’s why I believe it’s extra mature. I used to be listening to a ton of experimental music. I used to be studying numerous new chordal patterns and melodic patterns and was getting impressed in these previous 4 years.

Channeling that every one into the brand new document made it really feel wish to me that I used to be in a position to totally execute one thing. With my albums prior I might pay attention again to pay attention again to the recording and be like ‘Oh, that sounds cool. However what am I actually making an attempt to do? What am I making an attempt to say?’ I believe with this one I had a extra clear thought of what I needed every track to be like and really feel like. I had a clearer imaginative and prescient. I wasn’t simply seeing it come collectively within the course of. Like “Comfortable Like A Flower” is the kind of track that I had in my soul for a few years. However I didn’t know the way to make these chords and match these melodies collectively till just lately. It simply clicked for me and I used to be in a position to do what I had in my head and I put it out!

And that feels so clear within the listening expertise. I beloved listening to the album in monitor record order. I used to be revisiting “Golden” and “Wild Occasions” and it was so cool as a result of you’ll be able to hear a whole shift from one track to a different. You type of touched on this however what is a few data that you simply had been bringing into the creation of this album? Particularly since each single track had its personal objective and its personal soundscape?

Cherry Glazerr: My thoughts all the time goes to “Comfortable Like A Flower.” With that monitor I needed to place dissonance within the monitor. So there was numerous shifting up and down half steps which I had by no means actually executed. I had performed that in my room and discovered that that sounds good to me, put up Stuffed and Prepared. And my style developed and I included numerous that into the monitor. That was one thing I actually needed to do and eventually did it. I don’t know, which may sound type of bizarre to some folks. However that was one thing actually particular to me and it was a small element that I used to be excited to have the ability to do.

Comfortable Like A Flower” is the kind of track that I had in my soul for a few years. However I didn’t know the way to make these chords and match these melodies collectively till just lately. It simply clicked for me and I used to be in a position to do what I had in my head and I put it out!

That’s tremendous thrilling! I personally beloved how gritty this album was. I do know you’ve got been debating what style this album feels wish to you. How would you describe the album to essentially encapsulate all of these complexities, as a result of it’s fairly a posh album?

Cherry Glazerr: I used to be calling it my David Lynch album. [laughs] It’s sudden and darkish and tough across the edges however with numerous soul and numerous coronary heart and numerous weirdness and somewhat little bit of humor.

I believe you encapsulate that so nicely on this album. I really feel such as you actually explored the depths of those relationships you are describing and even just like the self discovery components. Was there a subject that you simply really feel such as you had a breakthrough about whereas creating?

Cherry Glazerr: I began to understand how a lot bullshit I had been by. Particularly with this one relationship that I had with a man that was lots older. It was simply one thing I had by no means stopped to consider the way it affected me. I believe I used to be working by numerous these emotions about that on this album. I took a minute to cease and really acknowledge these emotions. I believe I tend to be somewhat bit avoidant. So if I’m simply going and going and going I don’t cease to essentially take into consideration how stuff makes me really feel. I used to be actually acknowledging numerous the overwhelming emotions that I had throughout that relationship and dealing by that by this album.

I can solely think about. Was {that a} cathartic expertise for you?

Cherry Glazerr: Yeah. I nonetheless do have moments the place I’m making an attempt to reckon with the individual I used to be earlier than the connection and who I’m now. Typically I want I may return to who I used to be however that’s additionally not likely attainable. So it’s about making an attempt to grieve that individual. I will be very self deprecating and that helps me work by numerous self hatred for myself.

I believe that is like a really relatable expertise. And that’s one thing that interprets within the music. It creates house for individuals who expertise the identical factor which is so particular.

Cherry Glazerr: Yeah, positively. Thanks.

Circling again to the sound actually shortly, you and your producer, Yves Rothman, had been very experimental with the sound of this album. Was there a sure pattern or sound that you simply guys used that was actually unconventional or sudden.

Cherry Glazerr: Each time he can be mixing I might be sitting on my cellphone on TikTok. He was like, ‘What’s that?’ As a result of I’d be scrolling from one video to the subsequent and he’d be like ‘we gotta document that.’ At first of “Sugar,” I don’t even know what the fuck the video is, however there’s this audio of me scrolling from one TikTok to the subsequent. He was like ‘That’s hearth!’

Most likely that, or I even have my pal Anders in there. We had been at a celebration in Laurel Canyon. And there was a loopy a part of the home the place there’s an elevator that comes down? And he goes ‘Flip round, take a look at that.’ And I put that in the beginning of “Sugar.” And I advised him, ‘It’s best to hearken to the brand new album, you’re in it.’

Do you incorporate actual sounds in your music usually?

Cherry Glazerr: Yves is simply actually down to do this. And I simply suppose that’s enjoyable and part of the method! A part of why you do that is to make stuff that makes you snigger. Or simply make one thing that could be a cool sound for no cause. Typically I really feel like producers will likely be like, ‘Oh, haha, yeah, however we’re not really going to do this, proper?’ However Yves was simply down! And so he and I are a match made in heaven or hell, I don’t know.

What was your imaginative and prescient and type of going into the creation of this album? And what did it type of change into?

Cherry Glazerr: I had labored with numerous writers and producers throughout COVID. Most likely 10 folks, I used to be doing numerous collaborating, and numerous classes. My label needed me to get right into a room with numerous completely different folks and experiment as a result of we had the time. One thing simply clicked after I had a session with Yves. I used to be like, ‘You’re the GOAT! We have to do that collectively.’ And I actually beloved all of the Yves Tumor stuff that he did. I knew he would work nicely with what I used to be making an attempt to do, which was positively extra freeform, extra experimental, much less structured. We had been simply creating. It was simply little songs that we thought had been fascinating, simply making an attempt stuff. No guidelines.

That sounds tremendous liberating.

Cherry Glazerr: Positively! Working with Yves is strictly like that, very liberating and liberating. He actually listens to all the things that I’ve to say. There’s no huge egos strolling round within the room. It simply seems like a really collaborative factor. He was the producer on it however he let me produce on it as nicely and he let me actually make numerous remaining choices. It was a really synchronized and symbiotic little collaboration with him. I wish to make extra music with him someday.

That is so superior. We had been chatting about that self discovery throughout COVID and since you weren’t touring. How does it really feel now that you simply’re now going again on tour for this album wherein the first cause it got here to fruition was since you weren’t touring?

Cherry Glazerr: I’ve by no means considered it like that. I’ve been fascinated about making the stage present somewhat bit extra peaceable. That’s bizarre as a result of the music is aggressive and insane. ButI wish to create some kind of centeredness to the reside side. I’m making an attempt to wrap my head round how to do this. It’s about making a world. I’m making an attempt to do this and incorporate among the emotions that I felt whereas making the album, that are positively somewhat bit extra self reflective and quiet and intense.

I’m going to attempt to incorporate that visually, and musically onstage. I’ve been fascinated about how to do this. Perhaps it could be darker within the room with bizarre little lights in every single place, and sound results. We’re touring as a 4 piece for this subsequent album, which is cool. So we’re shifting up from being a 3 piece to a 4 piece. It’s gonna deliver one other layer of spice.

Are you touring with the identical bandmates that you have been touring with beforehand?

Cherry Glazerr: Yeah, Nick [Pillot]’s been with me for 2 years, and Sami [Perez] has been with me for, I believe, 4 years. Sami, my bass participant, she’s type of my rock. She helps me do numerous stuff within the band. She’s only a killer bandmate. I like her.

What’s it wish to be returning to the stage with that very same staff and attending to work with them by all of those phases of Cherry Glazerr?

Cherry Glazerr: I really wouldn’t know as a result of I’ve had numerous lineup adjustments. I really feel like I’ve had an reverse expertise to that. I’m the one one who’s really seen the total trajectory of my life, as Cherry Glazerr. My label has been with me for a minute and so has my staff, my staff has stayed the identical. I’ve all the time been the chief of the band and it’s all the time been my mission. Even after I began it with different musicians. I began with Paige, Luke and Joe and put the music out. After which I bought two new members. After which I had three new members after that. After which two new members after that.

It’s all the time been that I write all of the music; folks have all the time recognized that coming into the band. I’ve a really open and beneficiant spirit and coronary heart, and I like bands. However on the identical time, I’m a complete management freak relating to artwork. I’m consistently balancing these two issues. Solely I’ve seen all my phases, however my present bandmates are so supportive and I’m obsessive about them. I’m like, it’s loopy.

I’ve a really open and beneficiant spirit and coronary heart, and I like bands. However on the identical time, I’m a complete management freak relating to artwork. I’m consistently balancing these two issues.

What have you ever bought arising subsequent?

Cherry Glazerr: I’m engaged on the subsequent one! I’m fascinated about the themes for it and collaborations that I wish to have. I wish to make a track with Mitski. So I’m making an attempt to hyperlink together with her. Hopefully, if I put it on this interview. Perhaps it’ll occur.

Manifesting a Mitski collab! What Mitski track would you like to do a Cherry Glazerr cowl of?

Cherry Glazerr: I imply, I like “My Love Mine All Mine.” I do know that’s an enormous track proper now nevertheless it’s so lovely. The vocal melody is so superior and iconic.

What can folks anticipate from the brand new album?

Cherry Glazerr: I’ve like 4 major concepts, of what path to go in, which is basic. I’ll in all probability put all of them on the album, as I do with each album and by no means select a facet. It’ll in all probability have somewhat piece of all the things.

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