Album Review: Glitoris - The Policy

What do you do when you write a protest album in 2018 and have to deal with online trolls branding you as “left wing BS with no respect”? You take it in your stride and deliver a debut LP that absolutely rips, that’s what. 

It’s no secret that Glitoris is a band that has dealt out a whole heap of attitude in direct response to some pretty fucked up things that have happened over the past couple of years. Single Spit Hood remains a blistering attack on the Australian criminal justice system that will have you screaming along: “Fuck! You! Yes, you are the criminal!” 

Sonically, there’s a bunch of glitter thrown at classic punk rock with riffs that Joan Jett could easily have been playing and of course the influence of the glam rock movement of the early ‘70s and riot grrl movement of the ‘90s. Perhaps there are some operatic and musical theatre tendencies in there too. These influences pulsate through heavy distortion and force you to pay attention to lyrics that bite; no more so than on What A Cunt. “This farcical shit storm of a reality means that we must constantly prove that you’re smarter, shrewder, quicker, always fucking better. What a fucking crock of shit.” Say that ten times fast.  

At the end of the day, there are a few universal truths we all can agree on; one of them being that glitter is impossible to get out. Well, when it's delivered in this medium, we’re not sure we mind.