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Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers Step Into Their GLORY

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers aren’t here to prove anything — they’ve already done that. On their sophomore album GLORY, the Canberra-born four-piece sound like a band fully in their stride: confident, cutting, and unapologetically themselves. It’s a record that doesn’t posture or chase approval; it just is — loud, clever, and completely in its own lane.

Recorded deep in the New South Wales bush with Catherine Marks (boygenius, Wolf Alice) behind the boards, GLORY finds Teen Jesus tightening their grip on the sharp-edged, emotionally raw indie-rock they’ve been carving since day one. The result? A record that walks the line between chaos and control — the mascara-smudged cool of a 2 a.m. bus ride home meets the feral confidence of a band that knows exactly what it’s doing.

Their post-punk bite still cuts deep, but there’s more range here — flashes of disgust, infatuation, power, and the kind of self-awareness that makes you smirk mid-breakdown. It’s as much about feeling invincible as it is about being cracked open.

The album closes on “WONDERFUL,” a slow-burn spiral written “in a state of frustration.” It’s the sound of being trapped in your own head, teetering between fear and resolve. “It’s about being scared of doing something but then doing it anyway,” the band says — a line that could double as GLORY’s mission statement.

This isn’t a reinvention. It’s a leveling up — a band who’s stopped asking for permission and started owning the noise. GLORY is Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, unfiltered and fully realized.