With his second solo album Snakewards, Chicago musician Joe Glass builds a private world of top-shelf power pop. In addition to the composition, arrangement, and singing, Glass plays almost all of the instruments on the album and recorded these songs himself over a three-year period. While there’s a lo-fi kinship with Sharp Pins (the band Glass plays bass in), these tracks are more versatile, going in multiple directions from one moment to the next like a compact and home-brewed version of The White Album.
Moments like the bounding opener “Dust on Your Halo” and “Man Who Lost His Diamond” have the revved-up jangle and melodic brightness of the post-Big Star power pop cannon, while “Buck Wild” shifts gears wildly into…

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