release date: Nov. 16, 1993
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,94]
producer: Sort Sol, Flemming Rasmussen
label: Columbia Records - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "Dog Star Man" (4 / 5) (live) - 2. "Popcorn" (4 / 5) - 3. "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking" - 4. "Sleepwalker" - 5. "Shaheeba Bay" (4 / 5) (live) - 7. "Eileen Alphabet" - 9. "Lady of the Lake"
6th studio album by Sort Sol released 2½ years after the band's commercial breakthrough Flow My Firetear continues on the same stylistic path as the predecessor, which is something quite unusual for this band, who has always sought to renew its style going from one album to the next. The album is the last to feature founding member and lead guitarist Peter Peter [aka P. Schneidermann]. Like the '91 album, Glamourpuss contains nine songs and reaches a total running time at 40 mins.
Compared to the '91 album, the stylistic output has been polished even more on this, and it soon became the band's biggest commercial success, in part with thanks to the popular Danish movie "Nattevagten" from early '94 by Ole Bornedal (featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), which included several tracks from the album. Both band and album won several prizes at the Danish Grammy Award show in 1994 - the band won as Band of the Year, and the album was rewarded the two prizes: "Best Danish Album" and "Danish Rock Release", and producer Flemming Rasmussen won for "Danish Producer of the Year".
Glamourpuss both contains great energetic burst-outs like "Dog Star Man", "Popcorn", "Shaheeba Bay", and "Eileen Alphabet", as well as more subtle and harmonic ballads, and then it nearly doesn't contain any fillers, although it fades out a little towards the end. On top of that it's the band's most coherent and best produced album to date making it their best album, imho.
Despite both critics and fans' positive reception of the album founding member Peter Peter decided to leave the band after what he experienced as a negative turn to commercialism. After leaving Sort Sol he formed the band Bleeder (in 2000 reorganised and named The Bleeder Group).
