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The Glass Intact is the second album by the Champaign, Illinois band Sarge. It was released in 1998 on Mud Records.[1]

The Glass Intact
Studio album by Sarge
Released	1998[1]
Length	39:16[1]
Label	Mud[1]
Sarge chronology
Charcoal (1996) The Glass Intact (1998) Distant (2000)

The album was somewhat of a breakout hit, getting a feature-length review at Salon.com and the Village Voice, and causing the band to become a 1998 "Hot Band" in Rolling Stone as well as being one of Spin Magazine's "98 for '98."^{[citation needed]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Spin	(8/10)[2]

Jason Ankeny of AllMusic declared the album to be "a kind of apotheosis of '90s-era girl-punk", finding the album combined the "emotional intensity of Sleater-Kinney, the melodic aggression of Team Dresch, and the sheer exuberance of Cub, yet their best trick of all is that they sound like an absolute original."[1] Ankeny noted that Elizabeth Elmore "a gifted composer, an acute lyricist, and a nakedly honest vocalist", concluding that the album "is at heart a rock & roll album in the classic sense: cathartic, impassioned, and vividly alive."[1] Stephanie Zacharek of Spin also noted the albums debt to riot grrl music with its "explosive emotional intensity", finding the album "nervy, hopelessly seductive and hell-bent for trouble and heartache, The Glass Intact peers at the world through a very dark lens - but the sun, with its menace and warmth is never far from view.[2]

Track listing

1. Stall
2. A Torch
3. Beguiling
4. Charms and Feigns
5. Homewrecker
6. Half as Far
7. I Took You Driving
8. Fast Girls
9. The First Morning
10. Put in the Reel
11. To Keep You Trained

Credits

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[3]

• Elizabeth Elmore - guitars, vocals, piano
• Rachel Switzky - bass
• Chad Romanski - drums
• Pat Cramer - additional guitars on track s1, 3, 4, and 5
• Matt Allison - engineer, producer
• Sarge - producer
• Brendan Gamble - recording engineer on tracks 3, 5, and 9.

References

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