Life In Your Glass World

by Citizen

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bgrieggs Very much picking up where big mouth left off with a driving bass line that makes you want to move, and shuffling drums you cant help to move your head to. Highly anticipating this release, as always, love Citizen!

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1.	Death Dance Approximately
2.	I Want to Kill You 03:12	lyrics
I’ll pick it up right where I left off Their banging their drums and they point to me I’m only alive when I need to be I’ll keep on digging up my lost cause It comes so slow but suddenly The things that make you happy They are not enough for me I’ll keep it coming if you want some more I’ll keep on running but it gets so tiring And when there is nothing left to write down Oh, will you come running when I get too tired? In the bright red sky I saw a pain that I clung to once before But I never want to go there anymore And in my bright blue eyes I know I’m looking for something to calm my nerves The clock is a knife and I wait my turn and it’s just getting worse I’ll keep it coming if you want some more I’ll keep on running but it gets so tiring And when all the water fills my lungs up Oh, will you come running when I get too tired?  I just want to play god for myself I just want war and nothing else  I’ll keep it coming if you want some more I’ll keep on running but it gets so tiring And when I got nothing left to give you Oh, will you come running when I get too tired?
3.	Blue Sunday 03:52	lyrics
On my blue Sunday There’s nothing else that I can do I throw my troubles away Don’t do nothing I don’t want to And as your body takes shape I draw your shadow in my room I got a lot to take in and nowhere to begin She told me oh no, don’t you keep me waiting baby  Don’t want to be something if I gotta sell my wounds to you Dig up a memory I hate Get some attention when I do Now everybody knows best Only see things how they want to When papers roll in, it doesn’t have to be me But it will never be you   Kick me down, mess me up a little more than last time In the back of my head Where the devils come play Nothing better than this I’m not missing a thing And if you lay me down Just let me burn instead And if I get knocked down I don’t want to go back In the back of my head Where the devils come play Nothing better than this I’m not missing a thing In the house that I live Where I spend all my days Nothing better than this I don’t miss anything
4.	Thin Air
5.	Call Your Bluff
6.	Pedestal
7.	Fight Beat
8.	Black and Red
9.	Glass World
10.	Winter Buds
11.	Edge of the World

about

Citizen have always eluded definition. The Toledo, Ohio-based three-piece have been making dynamic, wide-ranging guitar music for over ten years, challenging expectations with each new album and refusing to fit neatly in a box. On their fourth full-length, Life In Your Glass World, Citizen have crafted their most singular work to date completely on their own terms—proving that only the band themselves can define their identity.

Since forming in 2009, Citizen—vocalist Mat Kerekes, guitarist Nick Hamm, and bassist Eric Hamm—have endlessly pushed themselves with each successive release, actively resisting the comfort zones that often plague bands as they grow. The band has fearlessly taken risks with their sound on each new album, and shown themselves capable of exploring impassioned post-hardcore, raw noise rock, shimmering indie pop, anthemic alternative, and more—often on the same album, and sometimes even the same track. But growth isn’t always painless, and the band has been navigating the fraught music industry from a young age—learning as they went and sometimes feeling pulled in different directions at once.

When it came time to make Life In Your Glass World, Citizen’s need to continue moving forward creatively went hand in hand with their desire to be fully in control of their creative destiny. Nick Hamm explains: “I don’t have a lot of regret but there have definitely been times when we felt powerless during the band’s existence. This time we really owned every part of the process. It’s easy to feel like you’re on autopilot when you’re in a band, but that’s not a good place to be this far into our existence. We consciously knew we wanted to break free.”

For Citizen that meant taking the entire album-making process home to Toledo (the Glass City) and creating everything in-house. Kerekes built a studio in his garage, a project that was both empowering and practical. “It’s super easy and convenient,” he says. “But I also felt like building the studio was a way to prove we don’t need anything but ourselves.” Hamm adds, “This is the first self-sufficient Citizen record. There was no pressure at all and moving at our own pace allowed the songs to be a little more fleshed out.” The looser recording process afforded the band time to focus on each song’s individual mood, making their signature blend of aggression and melody all the more pronounced, and even capturing appealing imperfections. The result is an album that represents the members’ vision in its purest form, something that feels distinctly Citizen while also marking the start of a fresh chapter.

One of the most immediately striking elements of Life In Your Glass World is the band’s attention to rhythm. Many of the songs feature undeniably danceable beats and sharply grooving guitar lines, which give both the barnburners and the brooding atmospheric tracks a pulsating heart. “When you write songs the same way for X amount of years, you start to want to try something new,” Kerekes says. “These songs were mostly built from drums and bass first, which was different for us. I’d start with a completely different beat every time to get a certain energy.” The band’s desire to assert themselves is palpable both in the music and Kerekes’ lyrics, mirroring not only their creative frustrations but also a long year of personal upheavals. “There’s a lot of anger in these songs and we wanted the music to communicate that,” Hamm says. “I think a lot of people expect bands to slow down or chill out when they get to where we are, but we consciously didn’t want to do that.”

The opening one-two punch of “Death Dance Approximately” and “I Want To Kill You” exemplifies the acerbic-yet-buoyant feel of Life In Your Glass World, and the latter sums up the album’s defiant themes. Kerekes puts it plainly: “Sometimes you feel like you’re being used. A lot of the lyrics are liberating, they’re reclaiming control.” The band wastes no time in showing their range, pivoting to the melancholy haze of “Blue Sunday” and the bounce of “Thin Air,” both of which meditate on the struggle to invest so much in something only to be let down and retreat inside oneself instead. Elsewhere tracks like “Call Your Bluff” and “Black and Red” showcase Citizen’s knack for big choruses, while “Pedestal” features towering drums and a distorted bass line that’s as malevolent sounding as Kerekes’ vitriolic words. “Fight Beat,” with its tense mix of otherworldly menace and memorable hooks, takes the band’s rhythmic-centric writing to its furthest point yet; lyrically, the song grapples with the realization that one has passed a point of no return, a sentiment that permeates the attitude of Life In Your Glass World. “This isn’t a baby step,” Hamm says. “It’s exactly what we want to do.”

Much of Life In Your Glass World deals with the bleak and challenging aspects of being human, and the album often feels like an exorcism of pent up negative feelings. But those feelings give way to a sense of hope with the closing track “Edge of The World.” Interweaving guitars rise around Kerekes’ voice as he considers past pain with the kind of clarity that can only come from time and distance—and finds promise in looking towards the future. The song builds to a soaring finale as the clouds part and Kerekes declares, “At the end of the day there was beauty in tragedy.” It’s one last turn, the kind of affirmation that makes you reexamine everything you just heard with a newfound perspective. It’s a fitting conclusion for Life In Your Glass World – borne of the confidence gained through years of trials, tribulations, and self reflection – and one that asserts that Citizen’s true identity is rooted in the raw energy of constant evolution.

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releases March 26, 2021

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discography

Life In Your Glass World

Mar 2021
Big Mouth

May 2019
Open Your Heart

Oct 2018
Live at Studio 4

Mar 2018
As You Please

Oct 2017
Everybody Is Going To Heaven

Jun 2015
Silo

Jul 2014
Youth

Jun 2013
Young States

Sep 2011
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths)

Mar 2012
The Only Place I Know

Mar 2011
Acoustic

Apr 2011

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