Throwback Thursday: Watch Onward Crispin Glover’s video for for ‘No Need For Checkpoints’

Onward Crispin Glover’s 2001 record, The Further and the Faster, is the perfect amalgamation of energetic debut release and punchy veteran talent. Before forming this band, frontman Byron Huhmann had been in Kansas City’s beloved power-pop rockers TV Fifty, and guitarist Marty Robertson and drummer Billy Johnson had both done time in Frogpond.

Still, the whole was greater than the sum of its parts, and it’s a crying shame that this Anodyne Records album was the only release the band would make. It’s a swirl of beautiful distortion and it’s still got hooks for days. Ostensible single “No Need For Checkpoints” — in that they made a video for it — is an excellent example of what the quartet did best.

Onward Crispin Glover have been playing reunion shows since last summer’s Crossroads Music Fest, which marked their first time onstage in a decade. Their next set is at the Record Bar on Saturday, June 27. More details on that show can be found here.