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Following up TIMMY VULGAR and QUINTRON with a MIND MELD threefer. The collective brains of GREG KING, RYAN BELL, and JOSH FEIGERT gives us GLITTERING INSECTS. An Atlanta "Ego Summit" written and recorded over the course of four weekend sessions. These three turned in the quickly thrown together EVOKER Tape as a companion piece for GG KING- Remain Intact LP back in 2020. I was so moved by it I asked if they would be interested in putting together a Mind Meld LP.
"Glittering Insects and their self-titled debut album takes the concept a bit further, exploring a trio of minds, bringing together Atlanta’s Greg King (GG King, Carbonas), Ryan Bell (GG King, Predator), and Josh Feigert (Wymyns Prysyn, GG King) for a collaborative effort. While all three members play together in GG King, Glittering Insects is assuredly something different, and it’s pretty astonishing. Written and recorded over a series of weekends spent in the studio, the album is made off-the-cuff, but you’d never believe it upon hearing it. The record trades in garage punk and beer soaked power-pop for something far more dense, sinister, and vastly expansive. Glittering Insects are entrenched in the weeds, tangling themselves ever deeper through an array of post-hardcore menace and death rock with touches of krautrock, black metal, and shoegaze adding impossible amounts of texture. The thing is though, it doesn’t really sound like any of those genres as the trio really only pull bits and pieces together to make something amorphous. "- Post Trash
Our take: I love the conceit of Total Punk’s sub-label Mind Meld, which releases records by punk luminaries working outside the boundaries of their main projects. This latest release by Glittering Insects is the creative core of one of our favorite current bands at Sorry State, Atlanta’s GG King, jamming out in their studio without whatever limitations shape the records they release under the GG King umbrella. Not that GG King isn’t a wide net… from almost the very beginning, their records have featured experiments in noise, black metal, hip-hop, and other unexpected genres, but under the Glittering Insects moniker, they let the members’ creativity run wild. The results are just fantastic… I had high hopes for this record given how much I love GG King, and it surpassed all of them. Like GG King’s records, it’s hard to pin down. The music is layered, with competing melodies, textures, and rhythms pulling in different directions. I love records like this that are a feast for the ears, and while there’s something to be said for the more straightforward pop approach that GG King also excels at, I love to put on a record like this, smoke a big ‘ol doob, and get lost in it. At different points, Glittering Insects might remind you of many similarly ambitious rock bands… Can, the Fall, Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Slint, My Bloody Valentine… as with those bands, the scope is wide and the well of ideas is deep. Pick this up and let it take you on a journey.
"Glittering Insects and their self-titled debut album takes the concept a bit further, exploring a trio of minds, bringing together Atlanta’s Greg King (GG King, Carbonas), Ryan Bell (GG King, Predator), and Josh Feigert (Wymyns Prysyn, GG King) for a collaborative effort. While all three members play together in GG King, Glittering Insects is assuredly something different, and it’s pretty astonishing. Written and recorded over a series of weekends spent in the studio, the album is made off-the-cuff, but you’d never believe it upon hearing it. The record trades in garage punk and beer soaked power-pop for something far more dense, sinister, and vastly expansive. Glittering Insects are entrenched in the weeds, tangling themselves ever deeper through an array of post-hardcore menace and death rock with touches of krautrock, black metal, and shoegaze adding impossible amounts of texture. The thing is though, it doesn’t really sound like any of those genres as the trio really only pull bits and pieces together to make something amorphous. "- Post Trash
Our take: I love the conceit of Total Punk’s sub-label Mind Meld, which releases records by punk luminaries working outside the boundaries of their main projects. This latest release by Glittering Insects is the creative core of one of our favorite current bands at Sorry State, Atlanta’s GG King, jamming out in their studio without whatever limitations shape the records they release under the GG King umbrella. Not that GG King isn’t a wide net… from almost the very beginning, their records have featured experiments in noise, black metal, hip-hop, and other unexpected genres, but under the Glittering Insects moniker, they let the members’ creativity run wild. The results are just fantastic… I had high hopes for this record given how much I love GG King, and it surpassed all of them. Like GG King’s records, it’s hard to pin down. The music is layered, with competing melodies, textures, and rhythms pulling in different directions. I love records like this that are a feast for the ears, and while there’s something to be said for the more straightforward pop approach that GG King also excels at, I love to put on a record like this, smoke a big ‘ol doob, and get lost in it. At different points, Glittering Insects might remind you of many similarly ambitious rock bands… Can, the Fall, Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Slint, My Bloody Valentine… as with those bands, the scope is wide and the well of ideas is deep. Pick this up and let it take you on a journey.