“Behind The Armour” is not your run-of-the-mill rock anthem. Glass Rumours’ third single of their Tsunami series crashes over the listener with a sound that allows no shade for nuance or reserve. The Timothy William produced track howls with presence from the get-go. The band unapologetically charges headlong without pause or hesitation. It’s rock and roll as it should be played: feral, cacophonous, and all the grittier for it. Carving riffs with no punches pulled and vocals that spit without reservation, “Behind The Armour” is the kind of track where Lemmy would sit up in his grave and grin at, mouth full of Fruity Pebbles.
Where it truly shines is the sincerity that peeks through the band’s feedback laden guitars and herculean drums. “Behind The Armour” finds resonance in the humanity that lies underneath our grease painted façade. As the lyrics detail, we like to put on airs, both online and in person. We filter our feeds, filter our personalities, and filter our insecurities with the right captions. We construct walls of characters built of our online and personal highlights, an armour with the digital sheen of screen time that betrays that quietly, slowly, we’re breaking. It’s here the title rings all the louder; armour, yes, but made of glass. Shatterable, transparent and vulnerable. It’s a truth each of us face. And the band cloaks it in a maelstrom of snarling riffs and obliterating drums in a way that’s not pompous, but instead, frankly real.
What makes the track all the more remarkable is that it was recorded halfway around the world. Vocalist Gemma tracked her vocals mid-tour, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, holed up in her tiny cabin on a cruise ship during work hours no less. If that’s not dedication to a craft then I don’t know what is. Glass Rumours are separated by bodies of water, but their song still knows how to crash ashore and rain all the harder for it. “Behind The Armour” is loud and proud and knows no shame in being both unapologetically vulnerable. And in an age where even rock music can feel so oversaturated it’s suffocating, that’s a rare thing to see.
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