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Label: Sony
Release Date October 29, 2010
Genre: Rock
Artist Site  Myspace

01. Torpor and Spleen 02:44


02. Long Pigs 04:51


03. Old Love 04:02
04. Apple Of My Eye 03:18
05. Painter By Numbers 03:09
06. Unflappable Man 04:17
07. The Drive 04:04
08. Turn On You 03:30
09. Glimjack Muttering 03:43
10. Barfly Prometheus 03:51
11. They Hate Us 03:42
12. The Love Zoo 05:00
13. South Of Heaven 03:45
14. Harsh Critic 03:42
15. Mengele In Brazil 04:42

While his band Augie March, a staple of the Australian music scene and winner of several Aria awards, is on hiatus, Glenn Richards is readying his first solo album Glimjack for release Down Under on October 29 (Sony).

The backing players may have changed for this outing but Richards' songwriting remains as lyrically eclectic and interesting as ever even with the sound toughened up with a more urgent and stripped bare approach -- think Crowded House with a shot of Red Bull and Stoly. Augie March's commercial success has been, album to album, at opposite odds with critical acclaim --- the better the reviews, the skimpier the sales (and vice versa)...a fact that may have contributed to Richards' decision to strike out on his own while his band gets pushed to the back burner.

"It's not really a solo album," says Richards, "it's another album of songs written by me that happens to feature other players and a deliberately low rent approach to the making. It's 'Glenn Richards' because I was too dumb to call Augie March that in the first place." Recorded in a warehouse over the course of a month, Glimjack's fifteen tracks are led by "Torpor and Spleen" -- a tune from the typically prickly Richards that sprints with a snare drum kick and careening melody, his smoky rasp riding just above the clatter. "It's rough and ready but not without ambition and some finesse," he declares of the album. "Like most of the Augie stuff it ain't hip, but I hope it's got some legs to out-stroll the sprinting ninnies on Cool Street."




“Why a solo album? A question nobody has asked me yet but one I’ll answer with all due defensive posture. May as well ask “why an album at all?”, an even better and more probing question, and even less likely to be asked than the original. Because it’s not really a solo album, it’s another album of songs written by me that happens to feature other players and a deliberately low rent approach to the making. It’s “Glenn Richards” because I was too dumb to call Augie March that in the first place. I could be almost middle class by now had I done that. I’ve talked to my brother Chris, Dan Luscombe and Mike Noga about doing something together for years and happily we’ve just done it.