Sweet Pill’s sophomore release comes four years after their debut album ‘Where the Heart Is’. These four years have seen the band tour alongside La Dispute and The Wonder Years, head out on their own headline tour, and pick up acclaim from artists across the board. The burnout of constant touring, in the band’s own words, made the writing process for ‘Still There’s A Glow’ a challenge; though it’s a challenge that they’ve overcome successfully enough, as the end result feels deceptively effortless.
With a blend of pop-punk, math rock, and grunge revivalism, ‘Still There’s A Glow’ achieves a coherency even across songs like ‘Sunblind’ and ‘Rotten’, which respectively bring a lightness and a darkness to the album in equal measure. This isn’t a case of songs existing on a single spectrum, alternating between two poles – songs like ‘Tough Love’ and ‘Heading On’ sit on a different pole entirely.
The album opens with the brightness that the title ‘Sunblind’ suggests – upbeat and...
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