Teen Jesus And The Jean Teasers – Glory

Set to bright, punchy, turn-the-volume-up indie-rock, the ten tracks on GLORY traverse confidence, disgust, infatuation and power. The album kicks down the door with ‘WATCHING ME LEAVE’, a song that flips the bird to every unsolicited stare you’ve ever received from a creep and a contemporary clap back to The Police’s 1983 track Every Step You Take – because one person’s romantic gaze is another’s gross threat. “I was looking away while you were smiling at me / You were asking my name while I was finding my seat / Every step that I take I know you’re watching me leave,” vocalist Anna Ryan belts out in lyrics that will feel immediately and viscerally familiar.?

For Anna, Scarlett, Neve and Jaida – a band who’ve now been making music together for a decade, and are lifelong friends as well as intuitive collaborators – GLORY is their victory lap. It’s an album that is, as they tell it, “completely us”; the work of musicians who know exactly who they are, what they’re worth and what they want to create. Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers have their game faces on, here to proudly stake their claim in music. Behold the power and the glory.