This is Glamourous

The concept album. As a medium for anything other than cool Roger Dean cover art, it is a musical conceit at best misunderstood, at worst reviled. But if it's good enough for The Who, ELP, and Donna Summer, then why not New Wet Kojak? Fear not – there are no elves, mods, or prostitutes scurrying between the grooves of the New York quintet's fifth offering, This Is The Glamorous (Beggars Banquet). NWK are cooler than that. "I’ve been obsessed with the concept of glamour, and what is glamorous, for a long fucking time," admits NWK main man Scott McCloud, who knows a thing or two about late nights and the importance of a good moisturizer. This Is The Glamorous, then, is NWK's eleven-song rumination on finding glamour in all things. "If you think about it, glamour is in everything," adds the singer/guitarist. "It's advertised to be glamorous, therefore it is."