Photo by Samantha Tellez

There’s not a whole lot that Gen Z’s reappropriation of the past gets mostly right, but a certain subset of mid-late ’90s alternative culture somehow seems to be one of the more natural (albeit, looser) fits for the crowd. Throughout the music video for “Guts”, the latest single from Texan heavy-gazers Glare’s debut full-length, Sunset Funeral, we see compact discs strewn about, a WinAmp media player playing a ripped new mp3 discovery, and an AIM chat box leading to an actual, IRL hang. All of that bleeds beautifully through the poster-covered walls of Glare’s form of loud music made insular for the purpose of making these kind of small budding moments in the coming of age leave their biggest marks on a lifetime’s memory. “Lay with me / It consumes your body / Does it feel real?” All signs still point to a generation presumed to be more disconnected from one another and everything than ever, but if there any glimmer in these “Guts”, it’s that maybe their yearning for a time they didn’t live through might just be the thing that saves a few of them from crumbling.

Directed by: Derek Rathbun

Glare’s Sunset Funeral will be released April 4th on Deathwish Inc. / Sunday Drive Records.