A lot of times when someone says “Southern Rock,” I go off on a rant about how it’s a bullshit term because rock n roll is from the South, so the only rock that shouldn’t have a geographical adjective should be Southern Rock. People should call the other stuff “Mid-Atlantic Rock” or “Great Plains Rock” or “that weird shit from Brooklyn.”

However, when you describe Glossary’s Feral Fire, it’s hard to avoid the term. A lot of that comes from the guitar work on the album. At times Glossary even dives head first into some classic, swinging, 70’s Southern-Rock-heyday influenced guitar licks, which so many other contemporary Southern bands avoid or even shun. It’s dangerous territory, like flying a helicopter, if you’re not really fucking good at it, you’re going to make a horrible mess, but Glossary nails it.

That’s not to say this album is a throwback or knock off, far from it.  I could go on and on using a bunch of obnoxious critic terms like “drums that drive and crash all at once,” “sonic slide guitar that dances around the soundscape,” and “yin and yang backup and lead vocals,” that firmly plant this in 2010, but quite frankly, that’s making me want to punch myself in the balls, so just take my word for it that’s it’s really fucking good.

Thanks to Alabama Ass Whuppin’ for turning me onto this one.

Go get it here or here. Or both.

Also, you can download Glossary’s previous album the Better Angels of our Nature, here for free, but if you do that, you better pay for the new one too. (The new one is even better. How much better? Exactly $7.99 better, or $9.99 if you use iTunes, either way, just go get it).