Eddy Yang: American Glory
Eddy Yang
American Glory
(Eddy Yang)
You have to give Eddy Yang his due. He managed all the writing, recording, production, mixing, mastering, and even produced the album artwork of his American Glory. The loosely strummed electric of âOn Our Way (Into The Night)â opens us into Eddyâs singular vision of the ââŠ2010s, when racial tensions, gun violence, and political uncertainty threatened to tear America apart,â as the press for this twelve-song album attests. âChasing Something,â has a profound lyric, obviously mining some of this Asian American indie rock-and-rollerâs truest feelings.
âRock N Roll Legends,â moves along maybe better than the frst four that preceded it. Itâs got a cool key backing, and there is a fine lead here; again, Eddy manages to give us a chorus that we can sing to. âRevolutionariesâ then âRenegadesâ follows, the first sporting a tight, snappy drum machine beat, over-driven guitar, and a punk-like vocal (good guitar here too); the second mines the same heavy simple vibe, âRenegadesâ being, even more, Ramones-like, with a real biting lyric.
A low âbowedâ keyboard string sound and low single bass note floats under the vocal of âInto The Night Again.â Iâm not so sure Eddyâs vocal is up to the task, and the song reallyoesnât introduce much else except a few haunting single note synths at the end of it. The title track ends the dozen. Itâs a mid-tempo plodder that has the potential of an anthem, and presents Eddyâs best vocal and his most layered production of all the tunes on American Glory.