The Soundcloud sensation’s hyperpop has entered its slacker phase.
Just to be clear, “I skipped my highschool prom,” sings Glaive. That means: school is over, I skipped the stupid prom, now the career break is really starting. The fact that Ash Blue Gutierrez came to Soundcloud fame as a lockdown phenomenon and had to give the first interviews from his childhood room in his parents’ house in Hendersonville, North Carolina, I CARE SO MUCH THAT I DON’T CARE AT ALL can still be said listen clearly.
Precocious thoughts about mistakes, the futility of love and whether you really have nothing to lose
The early hits with the speaking titles “Pissed”, “Sick” or “Life Is Pain” are not to be found on the debut album, and their unhewn despair is smoothed over, but the teenager is still deep in the now 18-year-old Glaive, but who has arrived in his slacker phase.
To rumbling hyperpop, which contrasts screaming emo guitar riffs with introspective chuckles and electro beats with uninhibited roaring, which is pimped up with auto-tune, he starts by asking: “Oh are you bipolar one or two?” Otherwise he gets on with it prematurely senile thoughts about mistakes he might have made, the futility of love and whether one really has nothing to lose. Of course you did, Glaive knows that now. Will he go to the first class reunion?