As he continues on his path to playlist ubiquity, a lot will be made of the fact that small-town North Carolina-based singer and producer glaive is just 15 years old.
And there is something prodigious about the kid. Early singles "astrid" and "touché" are expertly crafted emo-leaning songs that conjure up images of bands he might consider classic rock (American Football's first album came out six years before he was born!) while "clover" and "arsenic" have marked him out as a gifted and nuanced pop writer.
But there's also something very charmingly adolescent about glaive, who wrote a song called "pissed" about being pissed and usually cuts his tracks at the two-minute mark.
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