Cherry Glazerr

Hailing from Los Angeles, indie rock group Cherry Glazerr generates a loud, unruly style that merges 1990s grunge textures with hazy alternative pop, pairing them with shadowy lyrics that alternate between outward challenges and inward examination. Beginning in the early 2010s as a solo outlet for then-teenage singer and songwriter Clementine Creevy’s intimate bedroom recordings, the project soon expanded into a complete band; its initial Burger label releases secured a contract with the independent powerhouse Secretly Canadian. The ensemble achieved wider recognition through the well-received 2017 album Apocalipstick, after which the musicians toured extensively across North America and Europe while appearing at prominent events such as Coachella. Despite repeated personnel shifts, Creevy further developed her songwriting on the comparatively introspective 2019 release Stuffed & Ready and the emotionally purging 2023 album I Don’t Want You Anymore.

The band’s history traces to 2012, when high-school student Creevy began capturing tracks in her bedroom under the name Clembutt. With initial assistance from Lucy Miyaki of the Los Angeles group Tashaki Miyaki, Creevy assembled a unit featuring drummer Hannah Uribe and vocalist Sophia Muller to perform her material live. Once bassist Sean Redman joined, the four-piece produced a demo that attracted Burger Records’ interest. Rebranded as Cherry Glazerr—a name borrowed from local NPR reporter Cherry Glaser—the ensemble issued the nine-song cassette Papa Cremp in early 2013 and began performing around Los Angeles, including at that year’s Burgerama Festival. There they attracted the attention of Yves Saint Laurent creative director Hedi Slimane, who booked the band for a Paris concert and licensed the song “Trick or Treat Dancefloor” for the fashion house’s advertising campaign.

The quartet tracked its debut album Haxel Princess for Burger, yet Muller departed before the January 2014 release; Uribe soon followed, prompting Creevy to reconstitute the lineup with Tabor Allen on drums and Sasami Ashworth on synthesizers. Working alongside producers Joe Chiccarelli (the White Stripes, the Strokes) and Carlos de la Garza inside Hollywood’s historic Sunset Sound Recorders, the refreshed group steered its raw garage-punk approach toward 1990s grunge while introducing polished studio elements that preserved Creevy’s distinctive perspective. Issued in early 2017, the second album Apocalipstick marked their commercial breakthrough; confident and expansive, it addressed sexuality, female empowerment, and personal autonomy, leading the band to spend much of the year on the road supporting Foster the People and Slowdive across North America and Europe.

Further adjustments arrived in 2018 when bassist Sami Perez entered and Ashworth exited, reducing Cherry Glazerr to a trio for the 2019 album Stuffed & Ready. Once again produced by Carlos de la Garza, the third record retained its dissonant force yet turned markedly more private and self-examining. Entering the following decade amid the worldwide pandemic, Creevy steered the project toward standalone singles such as “Rabbit Hole” and “Big Bang,” while also joining forces with Portugal. The Man and Moon Boots; the group additionally supplied a rendition of “My Friend of Misery” to the Metallica tribute compilation The Metallica Blacklist. By 2023 the musicians had finished a fourth album that Creevy co-produced with Yves Rothman. Issued that September, I Don’t Want You Anymore balanced greater maturity with cathartic release, delivering a bold, distorted statement that captured personal evolution without abandoning the ensemble’s buoyant, garage-rooted drive.