This promising young band from the East Coast drink from the wine of the new rock & roll menu. In other words, there isn't much on "Drama Bones" that can be rooted in the recent past of twenty years ago or beyond that, despite the group's claims of '60s influences on their CDBaby site (http://cdbaby.com/cd/ghouse).
Consisting of vocalist John Salamone, guitarist Nick Vacante, bassist Paul Pileggi, keyboardist Tom Stafford, and drummer Dan Rader, Glasshouse are more closely related to the emo movement and the avant-garde futurist experimentalism of Radiohead.
Guitars swirl and jangle in "Blame on You," possibly the most accessible track on "Drama Bones." The use of piano is a nice touch although it's no longer the alternative-rock shock it was once was with Coldplay and Keane dominating the airwaves. (Older memories will recall when the Jam's Paul Weller switched from mod riff crunch to keyboard soul with the Style Council, a significant yet often forgotten college-radio history lesson.)
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Salamone is certainly gripping when he stretches his voice, and the group has developed a sharp chemistry, creating cerebral textures that are also rocking, such as on "Waiting for You." Glasshouse is a band that is destined to excel in the years ahead. You can hear it in their ambitious arrangements and uncompromising style, the sound of a Big Bang about to happen.
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