glaive releases new album Y’ALL

Pop groundbreaker glaive makes his return with new album Y’ALL. After leading the charge of a scene which changed the DNA of pop music as we know it when he was only 16-years-old, he has evolved to be fully in command of a sound which continues to disrupt and challenge the parameters of electronic pop music. The hell-raising defiance of his adolescence has evolved into a maturity reflected in the scale and complexity of his sound. Y’ALL is a portrait of the artist as a young man. 

Y’ALL is the story of a teenager pulled up from his roots, finally returning to his hometown in North Carolina at twenty, a radically changed person in an unchanged place. Speaking on how the album defines an era of his life, glaive shares: “I realised that it wasn’t the place that I had the problem with, it was myself. I wanted more, and the more I got the less I felt I had. With this move came a lot of time to think: about myself, about others, about everything. I sort of came to the conclusion that perhaps the classic musician “lifestyle” wasn’t for me. I didn’t derive enjoyment from the “lifestyle” that making music can offer. It sounds quite silly but I was raised here and maybe I’ll die here. As I got older, I realised my flaws and the flaws of the ones I love. This album is called Y’ALL because at its inception, I wanted it to be less about me – and somewhere in that process, I think it became the most “me” album I’ve ever made.”

He kicked things off with ‘asheville’ – named after his complicated affection for its origins. With a beat that kicks in like teeth hitting concrete, it captures a piercing sense of the growing pains we all recognise even through the lens of extraordinary circumstances.

He followed up with ‘appalachia’ with its pulverising bassline and a matrix of twinkling synths – a masterclass in impossible tension and release. The intensity of glaive’s stage presence translates to his new music like never before. With tracks like ‘veni vidi vici’, the reggaeton-influenced ‘nouveau riche’ – written with pride that nothing was ever handed to him – and the mind-melting trance experiment ‘foreigner’, Y’ALL marks his most dance-driven, maximalist work to date.

But for every electronic suckerpunch there is a song where he gives his heart. ‘flock of bluebirds’ is some of his finest songwriting – with its gorgeous saxophone line, it will bring you to your knees if it catches you in a particular mood – and it’s influenced by a wisdom that he is stepping into for the first time. ‘crying laughing loving lying’ captures the sugar rush terror of falling for someone, while ‘bennie and kay’ is an ode to the loss of his grandparents in the space of a year, and the anchors of familiarity and comfort that comes with growing up.

His previous works cypress grove, all dogs go to heaven, and then i’ll be happy, have all cemented him as a generational artist, lauded by the likes of The New York Times, Vulture, GQ and The FADER. His second studio album of last year, May It Never Falter, was hailed as a genre-defying body of work that marked the beginning of an independent chapter in his artistry. 

Working closely with a tight-knit team of collaborators including John Cunningham (XXXTENTACION, Kanye West), Ralph Castelli (Dora Jar, The Neighbourhood), and Jeff Hazin (Kali Uchis, renforshort) the album served as a coming-of-age narrative set against the backdrop of adolescence and self-discovery.

May It Never Falter was recorded in the remote landscapes of Iceland and Wales, continuing the Sigur Rós-inspired approach to isolated, immersive recording environments that began with his debut album i care so much i don’t care at all (2023). The album was listed as one of the best of 2024 by Vogue and was supported by a North American and European tour in spring of 2025.