They say that living well is the best revenge. How Not To Be Happy, the second album from scuzzy trio GLOO, offers an alternative strategy: sod that, write some mouth-puckeringly sour yet catchy tunes instead. Across 30 taut minutes, the south coasters take swipes at every aspect of the daily humdrum, from being a slave to the grind (Work So Hard) to Little England clichés (Big Smoke). No lattes and pastries for breakfast, just bitterness and distortion pedals. Yet GLOO have added some smarts to their snotty rock since the harum-scarum of 2018’s A Pathetic Age. Swimming In Your Sea oozes slacker cool, bobbing through waves of guitar fuzz while Mark Harfield’s twitching drum beat keeps the bile on simmer. Takes The Piss is full of vinegar as chief yelper Thomas Harfield settl...
