Our impatience for a return to normal may cause many to romanticise how good things were before the lockdown. Thankfully, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at things, Boston Manor are on hand to remind us it wasn’t much of a picnic then either. And while GLUE was made long before the coronavirus outbreak, its focus on seizing opportunities, however they come our way, to gain some perspective is strikingly pertinent. Just as this period of adversity has brought out the finer qualities in human nature, so, too, has the personal chaos experienced by frontman Henry Cox resulting in an album darker, more cynical, and more beautiful than anyone could have predicted. GLUE understands we live in trying times, identifying the many challenges of this new decade, a global pandemic notw...
