When Cayetana disbanded, Augusta Koch found an outlet for her increasingly personal songs in Gladie. After a pair of albums produced by bandmate Matt Schimelfenig that framed discontented lyrics in an appropriately scrappy grunge-pop, they decided to bring in an outside producer for the first time for their third long-player, No Need to Be Lonely. While this move may cause one to think of cleaner surfaces and a generally stronger, more streamlined sound, in this case No Need to Be Lonely benefits from something else: a more impulsive, immediate sound generated with help from their choice, indie punk hero Jeff Rosenstock.
The album opens with filtered, muffled guitar and half-drums alongside a jagged, cracking vocal melody that begins with the words…

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