"When fall comes / Bitter feeling come along / Neither happy or bad / It’s just makes me feel alive..."
Some songs feel less like songs and more like points of catharsis, like a blood letting wail during a primal scream therapy session. "At the Same Time" by Tender Glue, the musical moniker of New York songwriter / musician Tom Gluewicki is that kind of song (or wail).
About the song Tom shares:
"This song represents the feeling of being sad and happy at the same time. I have always felt strongly about fall for some reason. It gives me this feeling of being happily sad. Perhaps it’s the feeling of melancholy for all the happy memories that have come to an end."
The song runs on beautiful circular guitar patterns, sliding cat crawling bass lines and huge eruptions of sound. Tom's vocal aesthetic in this and other songs might feel inward but he goes for broke, is not afraid to let his voice reach to places that he might not be able to grasp without falling (not that he ever does, he is a wonderful singer) and I like the out on a precipice aesthetic.
The track is from his just release album entitled "Not so Very Nice" ("mostly an accumulation of meaner songs that I wrote in different periods of my life. I wanted this album to represent the blue collar and hard working people, punch in - punch out kind of struggle.")
I dig this song, I dig the wails.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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https://www.facebook.com/TenderGlue/
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https://www.youtube.com/user/tenderglue
https://tenderglue.bandcamp.com/
https://tenderglue.bandcamp.com/
https://tenderglue.com/
Tender Glue (noun): Not a person. Not a band. Music made by an urge to create.
Tender Glue is made up of Tom Gluewicki, who was originally born and raised in Poland and later moved to New York in 2002. He explains his first encounter with playing music when he was twelve years-old after he had fixed a broken guitar that his brother brought home. You can learn more about his story in the “ABOUT” section of his website.
On September 25th, 2015, Tender Glue released his debut EP titled, “Wait For Steady Light”. After several years of creating original music, this album is a culmination of raw recordings, composed with minimal equipment, using the resources Tom had in his home. Full length album "Steady Light", which was a continuation of the EP, was released year later on August 26th, 2016.
The album titled "Closet Leftovers", was released on September 28th, 2018 on Tom's record label called Don't Label Me Records. The first four singles from the album were released between February to June of 2018. "Closet Leftovers" was recorded and produced by Tom in his studio apartment closet after he moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan more than a year ago.
The 2022 album "Not so Very Nice" is as Tom says' mostly an accumulation of meaner songs that I wrote in different periods of my life. I wanted this album to represent the blue collar and hard working people, punch in - punch out kind of struggle.'
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