"ira glass know that novelty is a dead end. "The half-life of a musical trend is getting shorter and shorter," said drummer Landon Kerouac in a recent interview. "There aren't real scenes, just friend groups," added Lise Ivanova, ira glass' frontwoman. The Chicago post-hardcore band holds fast to these truths, uninterested in snobbishness or modish songwriting; they're technically a four-piece, but they have a rotating cast of collaborators that they bring on stage and in the studio to assist in their expansive noise rock."
"Jill Roth's saxophone is crucial to ira glass' sound. Their playing veers between droning textures and the roughly jazzy, as on "fritz all over you," when a loping melody wafts like smoke amid gentle post- Slint guitar chords. Roth dishes out skronkier wails on "fd&c red 40," the group's foremost dance-punk track. It begins with the sort of fractured funk groove that courses through no-wave classics, then channels '90s screamo before landing on an extended free-improv jam with spoken word."
Ira glass treat novelty as a dead end and prioritize collective study over trend-chasing. The Chicago post-hardcore group operates as a technical four-piece with a rotating cast of collaborators for live and studio expansion. Joy is No Knocking Nation compresses post-hardcore's past fifty years into a dense 19-minute EP focused on exploration rather than invention. Jill Roth's saxophone provides drones, jazzy lines, and skronk, shifting textures across tracks like "fritz all over you" and "fd&c red 40." Lise Ivanova alternates between plainspoken recitations and shrill skramz yelling, anchoring abrupt transitions and tense atmospheres throughout the record.
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