SoundCloud graduate glaive flips the script with “i wanna slam my head against the wall"

As legend has it, glaive’s number of streams increased by a meteoric 30,700,000% after starting 2020 with just one. Building an empire from his bedroom, in the space of a single year (with a pandemic thrown in for good measure), the hyperpop wunderkind has collaborated with fellow SoundCloud heavyweight ericdoa, as well as releasing his debut EP cypress grove – which more than rips up the rule book.

Flipping his emo-indebted, glitched out pop signature for a smoother ride, “i wanna slam my head against the wall” is all sunshine and rainbows on the surface – but it barely conceals universal angst, pining after serotonin and a crush whose already in a love affair with alcohol.

But make no mistake, while the verses run along at a breezy pace, the chorus is where the glaive we know and love comes into his own. Faster and faster, its like a merry-go-round as he sings the all-too-familiar feeling: “I wanna slam my head against the wall / Till I cannot feel at all”.

It’s the stage-setter for glaive’s forthcoming EP all dogs go to heaven which is out later this spring, and holds the promise of being just the start for a very new, much-needed kind of pop star.