TUNES // Glambat – Cole Gate

Post by Tommy

i remember so vividly how loose and cathartic it felt the first time i got slammed in a mosh pit, how different and good it felt to experience music like it was anarchic, kinetic energy, momentum between bodies. i also remember standing in a doorway in hartford, watching a guy terrorizing a gentler crowd, teetering alone around a blossoming empty space in front of the stage, arms swinging loosely by his side, haphazardly pressing his weight against the people on the peripheries of the growing space. he forced his shoulder into me, i pushed him back to the center. he was agitated, yelling, like a child, like no one would play with him. like the use of playing was not to share play, but just for someone to occupy you.

there are violent and selfish people that so easily find a place of refuge in music scenes. they punch walls and break windshields, they take without asking, they exert force on the community around them. but, when they’ve “got that big stack / basement / good shit,” when they’re “extraordinary,” everything one-sided, forceful, and presumptuous maybe starts to feel mutual, starts to feel kinetic to them. like their mosh pit is ubiquitous, a right to which they’re entitled.

it’s not kinetic, of course – they’re stealing energy, not fostering it. but who’s trying to stop them?

Glambat’s new split with Snowpiler, “I Feel God In This Chili’s Tonight,” is available now via Funnybone Records.