The Underground Stage
A Clay J Gladstone track always seems to have more ideas than the average song can hold, and their latest once again strains at its bounds, pulling at the seams holding it together. Teeth clenched and veins bulging, ‘Balance’ hulks out of its clothes, ragged and wild-eyed, coloured in outside of its lines.
“Thanks to the virus, Clay J Gladstone aren’t totally used to playing to crowds on their feet – but it’s not them that need the practise, it’s us. When a band like this gets this up in your face with songs as wild and untethered as these, it’s time to relearn how to lose it, […]
“I’m trying really hard to avoid connecting Clay J Gladstone’s onstage stab vests to their sharp, finely honed sound, but it’s impossible. Sorry. Anyway, look – Clay J Gladstone are a Labrador-Doberman cross of a band, delighted with everything but poised to rip your neck open. If you’re built for it, this lot are near […]
Sill only a relatively few beats into their existence, Clay J Gladstone’s latest propels them forward harder and faster than even on their fearsome 2020 releases. Capturing the best bits of Violent Soho’s imperious guitars and sinewy basslines, and melding it with the wild eyes and unhinged abandon of Fangz, this is the sort of […]
“Clay J Gladstone pull off this magic trick of sounding really cross all the time but making you smile while they go about it. This set is *furious*, but it’s uplifting and vigourous fun all at the same time, which really ain’t easy. Big hairy balls of joy mashed into a pile of irritation and […]