gglum signs to Secretly Canadian and releases new single, "SPLAT!"

"SPLAT! was just me splurging a bunch of feelings I had around a complicated relationship, where it feels like nothing really happens and no one makes a move but you’re constantly thinking about it," explains Smoker. "I wanted to capture the emotional chaos of teenage desire and the intensity of your feelings when you’re still learning how relationships work. The song really expresses all the ways I felt but in a very disordered way bouncing between raw feelings, rationalisation and angry outbursts."

Alongside the new single, gglum announces is a London headline show at The George Tavern on 22 November.

“At the time I was 17, going out all the time, bunking school, feeling really rubbish about myself’, she says. “I think that's what helped with writing a song I liked for the first time — I just started being honest. It was basically just me pouring my misery into a song, and that's why I called myself gglum. At the time, I was just being all angsty teenager”.

That early expression of truth turned into 2020’s viral pandemic-era hit “Why Don’t I Care”, from one of her formative EPs, beginning the journey that would lead gglum to Secretly Canadian.