The Glorious Sons’ second full-length album, 2017’s Young Beauties & Fools, is all about honesty. More specifically, it’s about exploring the adventures (and frequent misadventures) of main songwriter Brett Emmons in the truest way. It’s also an album where The Glorious Sons — rounded out by Brett’s older brother Jay Emmons (guitar), Chris Koster (guitar), Adam Paquette (drums) and Chris Huot (bass) — capture all the listlessness and confusion of young adulthood in 10 doses of modern rock.
It wasn’t easy to capture that realness. The band wanted to range further, to grow and evolve from the successes of 2014’s The Union album. That record was an immediate hit on the Canadian radio rock landscape. Glorious Sons scored seven consecutive Top 10 rock radio tracks, won two SiriusXM Indie Awards (Group of the Year and Rock Group of the Year) and received a Juno Award nomination in 2015 for Rock Album of the Year. Eighteen months of recording fits and starts led the band to Los Angeles to work with production team Fast Friends (Frederik Thaae, Ryan Spraker, Tom Peyton). It wasn’t until they started exploring a collection of old voice memos on Brett’s phone that they had their eureka moment. The subsequent creative outburst resulted in an album written in 12 days and recorded in 14.
There should be lots of opportunities to see Glorious Sons play the songs from Young Beauties & Fools. By their count the band has driven across Canada “at least 10 times” and played upwards of 300 shows to support their last album. “You don’t know what you’re going to get night to night from us,” says Jay. “It’s something you have to see and it’s interesting and powerful.”
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Upcoming Shows:
MAR 14 WED Schubas Tavern Chicago, IL, United States
MAR 17 SAT Atlantic Station Atlanta, GA, United States
MAR 18 SUN Gasa Gasa New Orleans, LA, United States
MAR 19 MON House Of Blues Houston, TX, United States
MAR 21 WED recordBar Kansas City, MO, United States T
MAR 22 THU Globe Hall Denver, CO, United States
MAR 23 FRI The Black Sheep Colorado Springs, CO, United States
APR 14 SAT Express Live! w/Franz Ferdinand lovelytheband Columbus, OH, United States
MAY 8 TUE The Castle Theatre w/The Struts Bloomington, IL, United States
MAY 11 FRI HOB w/The Struts Cleveland, OH, United States
MAY 14 MON Majestic Theatre w/The Struts Madison, WI, United States
