![]() However, not inspired by distance learning, he started working with recording software he found the beat on the internet and then mumbled his way to the melodic structure. “Īccording to his mom, Glaive was an excellent student before COVID. “I felt like I lost someone I knew, which is pretty corny. Pip’s death at the age of 21 from an accidental overdose in 2017 left him reeling. “Guitars, trap drums and heavy 808s – I’ve never heard anything like it before,” says Glaive. Lil Peep’s morose but polished emo rap was a key revelation. At school he was “a serious, withdrawn, calm, silent child” at home, he played video games, including with medieval weapons that gave him his stage name, and surfed SoundCloud. “It’s a small southern town that definitely sleeps at night,” he says. Glave was born in Florida but moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina with his parents – his father is a retired professional polo player whose career was run by his mom – after his father retired when Glave was about 10 years old. when you’re working alone in your bedroom – and his gross, diffuse emotions that have drawn Gen Z’s, deeply familiar with the over-arousal sensation when they stare at a screen or two for hours. (Other like-minded hyperpop artists have begun to rally around the popular Spotify playlist with over 240,000 subscribers, including 100 gecs, Midwxst, and Osquinn.) Sound seems inextricably linked to the pandemic in terms of both methodologies – no need for social distancing. True to the name of its evolving genre, Glaive’s music has a punk, proudly fierce energy, with droning synth riffs and heavily processed vocals over distorted beats that can suddenly explode in double spasms. ![]() ![]() ![]() Glaive, whose real name is Ash Gutierrez, used the laptop to compose songs, through which he struck a deal with Interscope Records, which has released a series of EPs over the past 12 months with millions of streams each on Spotify his latest song “Then I’m Be Happy” is a collaboration with another hyper-pop artist, Erikdoa, with whom he will appear in Roxy. ![]()
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