Jason Pierce is a man of intense musical visions and an enormous appetite for the biggest available aural canvas on which to display them. Having pioneered a fiery blend of Velvet Underground-inspired drone rock, gospel, blues, chamber music and Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, his is one of the few bands playing Glastonbury who may find the festival a little pokey for their needs, sonically speaking. And yet few groups could be more perfectly suited to the festival spirit, which may explain why this is their eighth appearance since 1992.
What should newcomers expect? Beautifully orchestrated songs of heartbreak (Stop Your Crying, Broken Heart), songs of bliss (Good Times, Come Together), songs of lost love (Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space) and songs about getting thoroughly wasted on a beautiful day (Lay Back in the Sun). What they lack in tricksy chord changes they more than make up for in emotional heft and sonic devastation. Expect tears.
Jason Pierce is a man of intense musical visions and an enormous appetite for the biggest available aural canvas on which to display them. Having pioneered a fiery blend of Velvet Underground-inspired drone rock, gospel, blues, chamber music and Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, his is one of the few bands playing Glastonbury who may find the festival a little pokey for their needs, sonically speaking. And yet few groups could be more perfectly suited to the festival spirit, which may explain why this is their eighth appearance since 1992.
What should newcomers expect? Beautifully orchestrated songs of heartbreak (Stop Your Crying, Broken Heart), songs of bliss (Good Times, Come Together), songs of lost love (Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space) and songs about getting thoroughly wasted on a beautiful day (Lay Back in the Sun). What they lack in tricksy chord changes they more than make up for in emotional heft and sonic devastation. Expect tears.
