Kevin Bronson on March 13th, 2019

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There wasn’t any Glaze Effect beer available at the Troubadour on Monday night — the craft blonde ale must just be a Chicago thing — but there was everything else you needed to fall for L.A. trio Cherry Glazerr: a pair of oversized cherries onstage, lots of red light and trippy visuals … and Clementine Creevy, in full throttle as both a bandleader and guitarist.

The hometown show, the first of two sold-out nights at the Troubadour, came in support of the band’s new album “Stuffed & Ready,” their third full-length and a milepost in their march toward a bigger, arena-ready sound. It’s an album made with the idea, Creevy said, that “you need to just get your hands dirty, with no inhibitions, and just lay everything out on the floor, look at its guts and pour yourself open.” And it’s that spirit that the 22-year-old, with three albums and two EPs already in Cherry Glazerr’s catalog, brought to the Troubadour stage.

The overheated club was populated by many who’d followed Creevy since she was a teenage terror. The trio did not disappoint — they played three songs from 2014’s debut “Haxel Princess,” injecting them with every ounce of the physicality that they did the eight songs they performed from “Stuffed & Ready.”

While Creevy’s vocals sounded a little road-weary — Monday’s show was the next-to last of a North American tour that saw them play 21 shows in 26 days — her Fender guitar spoke volumes. It shrieked and snarled as Creevy worked in and around her furious rhythm section of Devin O’Brien and Tabor Allen. They proved to be a true power trio.

By the time they were six songs in, churning out “White’s Not My Color This Evening,” the crowd got into it, banging heads and forming a modest mosh pit. Creevy would join them in the middle of the club later, finishing the main set with the title track from 2017’s “Apocalipstick” and 2014’s “Sip O’ Poison.”

After covering LCD Soundsystem’s “Time to Get Away” and roaring through “Told You I’d Be With the Guys,” Cherry Glazzer wrapped the night in a tidy 65 minutes. Nary a second felt wasted.

The trio reprised the show on Tuesday night.

Setlist: Ohio, Had Ten Dollaz, That’s Not My Real Life, Self Explained, Nurse Ratched, White’s Not My Color This Evening, Trash People, Juicy Socks, Grilled Cheese, Teenage Girl, Wasted Nun, Distressor, Daddi, Stupid Fish, Apocalipstick, Sip O’ Poison. Encore: Time to Get Away (LCD Soundsystem), Told You I’d Be With the Guys

Photos by ZB Images