gloria
France | live
Four years after their (very well-received) debut album In Excelsis Stereo, a six-track EP in 2018 and a tour of France (including a live performance at the Transmusicales 2017 filmed by KEXP), England, Spain, Portugal and Italy, the Lyon-based sextet begin their comeback with a devastating new single from their new album entitled Sabbat Matters. Scheduled for release on March 5, 2021, this second album is packed with delightful nuggets, including the hypnotic “You Had It All!
Californian psychedelic pop, a sumptuous album and luminous singles: Gloria – signed to the up-and-coming Parisian label Howlin Banana (The Madcaps, Kaviar Special…) – comes from a variety of garage rock backgrounds (including Slow Joe & The Ginger Accident and Tarah King Th.). This Lyon-based combo has opened a space-time door that takes us straight back to late ’60s California, with a sound that telescopes girl-band vocal harmonies, garage-rock energy and overpowering psychedelia! The formula works like a charm, both on album and on stage, where three singers and three musicians take us on a delightful trip, as fresh as it is obvious.
Press
“Melancholic, nostalgic, nicely old-fashioned, but with arrangements and melodies that take you to the heart and body. Rock & Folk
“Four years after the wonderful In Excelsis Stereo, the sextet returns with Global Warming, a title that heralds a new album due in September. Les Inrocks
“We’re reminded of the Mamas and Papas, Janis Joplin, the ethereal indie rock of the ’90s too, and then the GTO’s, that girl group founded by Frank Zappa, the leader of the Mothers of Invention used to make the angriest of Sunset Boulevard groupies.” Next / Libération
“A brilliant local band, beautiful but never boring, melancholy but clearly rock, and parity with that.” Technikart
“From the Beatles, to the Stooges, via John Fahey, La bossa, free jazz, Walter Carlos or Silver Apples, it feels like everything has been said here, and always with the freshness of first times.” Les Inrocks
“Replay their summer hit Beam Me Up 30 times. California isn’t dead, we just ran into it on the Paris metro.” Gonzaï
“We were seduced by the Summer of Love atmosphere of the video for Beam Me Up (…) a fusion between the Beach Boys and the Ronettes, four decades later. Konbini
