''Haxel Princess'' is the first full-length
studio album
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from American
indie rock
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band
Cherry Glazerr
Cherry Glazerr is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 2013. The current lineup consists of guitarist and lead vocalist Clementine Creevy, bassist Sami Perez and drummer Tabor Allen. The band's sound has transitioned from lo-fi and ...
.
Reception
Editors of
AllMusic Guide
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scored this album 3.5 out of five stars, with critic Tim Sendra noting the band's "very laid-back and relaxed approach to their noisy, poppy, almost ramshackle garage punk" paired with how "Creevy has a wonderfully bored way of singing where she sounds like she's idly passing by a mike as she nonchalantly tells tales", recommending to listeners that the album is "definitely worth checking out if you like your guitar pop delivered in a decidedly off-kilter fashion".
A staff review by John Gentile of
Punknews also rated this release 3.5 out of five, opining that Creevy's vocals create "a cold, intriguing character that throughout the rest of the album, never really lets you inside, but keeps you interested".
Writing for
Consequence of Sound
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History
''Consequence of Sound'' was founded in Septem ...
, Michael Madden rated this album a C+, noting the uneveness of the band's music: "When everything is operating smoothly, it works out great. When it’s not, their music is vague and a little presumptuous."
Reviews for the band's follow-up ''
Apocalipstick'' have noted how the group's sound matured in the interim,
with
Pitchfork Media
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's Quinn Moreland characterizing this release as "full of goofy and relatable teenage dispatches".
Track listing
#"Cry Baby" – 3:03
#"Grilled Cheese" – 2:09
#"Haxel Princess" – 2:42
#"Glenn the Dawgg" – 1:39
#"All My Friends" – 2:07
#"Bloody Bandaid" – 3:54
#"Sweaty Faces" – 2:22
#"Teenage Girl" – 1:45
#"White's Not My Color This Evening" – 3:09
#"Trick or Treat Dancefloor" – 2:15
Personnel
Cherry Glazerr
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Clementine Creevy
Clementine Creevy (born December 11, 1996) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is best known as a founding member of the rock band Cherry Glazerr.
Early life
Clementine Creevy was born on December 11, 1996, in Los Angeles. Her mo ...
– guitar, vocals, organ
*Sophia Muller – vocals
*Sean Redman – bass guitar
*Hannah Uribe – drums, percussion
Additional personnel
*Joel Jerome – percussion, recording
engineering
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*Lucy Miyaki – drums, percussion
See also
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List of 2014 albums
References
External links
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Review from ''Far Out Magazine''
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2014 albums
Burger Records albums
Cherry Glazerr albums
Secretly Canadian albums