Butch Walker As... Glen
Another remarkable album from Butch Walker. With this album, Walker embodies a dive bar superstar character, Glenn, paying sonic homage to glam rocking piano-men like Elton John, and Billy Joel.
While the album contains great individual songs such as the duet, "Stateline Fireworks," featuring Sue Clayton and slow melancholic ballads such as "Slow Leak;" In proper Butch Walker form, the album experience takes a very tung and cheek approach to the dive bar atmosphere Walker is trying to capture. The album is introduced with a skit called "tip your waitstaff," which is meant to sound like the live soundtrack to a piano player club act, and splitting the album is a 45 second bar fight (aptly titled "Bar Fight") which starts side B of the vinyl .
All momentum is quickly brough back up to speed on the rambunctious "Tell Me I'm Pretty (Bethamphetamine Pt. 2)" one of the few guitar-heavy tracks here. And as fun as raucous moments like that are, it's a song like "Holy Water Hangover," the first single and easily one of the most addictively catchy songs Walker has ever written, that makes this album a need to own.
All momentum is quickly brough back up to speed on the rambunctious "Tell Me I'm Pretty (Bethamphetamine Pt. 2)" one of the few guitar-heavy tracks here. And as fun as raucous moments like that are, it's a song like "Holy Water Hangover," the first single and easily one of the most addictively catchy songs Walker has ever written, that makes this album a need to own.
Tracks
- The Band Takes the Stage
- Leather Weather (MR. And Ms. Understanding)
- Roll Away (Like a Stone)
- Avalanche
- State-Line Fireworks (With Sue Clayton)
- Slow Leak
- Bar Fight
- Tell Me I'm Pretty (Bethamphetamine PT 2)
- Holy Water Hangover
- Don't Let It Weigh Heavy on Your Heart (With Elizabeth Cook)
- The Negotiator
- The Band Plays An Encore
- Lean Into Me