Gen and the Degenerates Derek Bremner
Genevieve Glynn-Reeves, the 22-year-old British vocalist and lead for Gen and the Degenerates, is not searching for compassion from older generations. Just reducing on the consistent invective and contrived worries will certainly greater than suffice.
“There’s so much criticism of like Gen Z and millennials from older generations about how we’re spending our time and the kind of things we value,” claims Glynn-Reeves, that with her 4 bandmates — guitar players Sean Sloan and Jake Jones, bass gamer Jay Humphreys and drummer Evan Reeves — transform the tables on the cynics on their launching cd Anti-Fun Propaganda, out Friday (Feb. 23) on Marshall Records.
Through tracks like “Kids Wanna Dance” and “That’s Enough Internet for Today,” Gen and the Degenerates explore the young people experience under the Internet bubble, where every short-term error and problem is fed right into a formula and archived in the cloud someplace.
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That’s troubling for Glynn-Reeves, that notes her disapproval for permeance: “I don’t even write the lyrics for my songs down. If they aren’t good enough to be remembered, they probably should be forgotten.”
A citizen of Cambridge, Glynn-Reeves fulfilled her bandmates at Liverpool John Moore’s University in 2019 and has actually been sharpening the band’s noise since, touchdown on a punky ’80s UK-meets-Manhattan’s Lower East Side design with busy lyrical shipment and dancy motifs similar to Blondie, The Eurythmics and Duran Duran.
As component of the cd launch, the band is including their latest solitary “Girls,” an audacious anthem skewering the TikTok chatting heads that slam “girly behavior.”
“I asked women on TikTok and femme-presenting people for weird misogynistic complaints that their ex-boyfriends have had about them,” Glynn-Reeves claims. “It turned out to be all these stupid things like, ‘Oh my ex would complain when I wore heels that made me taller than him,’ so I made the lyric ‘I love it when their shoes make them taller than me.’ Because it’s so ridiculous for men who claim to want to date women to then just have all of these stipulations and criticisms about women.”
“And they say this while having no standards for themselves,” Jones included.
“We should celebrate those things and put them in a positive light and see them as desirable,” Glynn-Reeve included. “As a queer person, I would love to date a woman like that; that sounds brilliant.”
Anti-Fun Propaganda is readily available in Spatial Audio by means of sustained streaming systems. The cd can be discovered on Spotify here. Fans can acquire limited-edition plastic packages of the cd here. The band is presently when traveling with fabulous Celtic punks Flogging Molly throughout the U.S. The full listing of days can be discovered listed below.
Feb. 23 – Charles Town VA, Hollywood Casino Event Centre
Feb. 24 – Jim Thorpe NY, Penn’s Peak
Feb. 25 – Huntington NY, The Paramount
Feb. 27 – Winston-Salem NC, The Ramkat
Feb. 28 – Chattanooga TN, The Signal
March 1 – Nashville IN, Brown County Music Centre
March 2 – Madison, WI, The Sylvee
March 3 – Green Bay WI, IMPRESSIVE Event Center Green Bay
March 5 – West Des Moines IA, Val Air Ballroom
March 6 – Davenport IA, Capitol Theatre
March 8 – Kansas City, MO, Uptown Theatre
March 9 – Mulvane, KS, Kansas Star Casino
March 10 – Lincoln, NE, Bourbon Theatre
March 12 – Boulder, CARBON MONOXIDE, Boulder Theatre
