Y’all

Ash Gutierrez has covered an enormous amount of ground stylistically as glaive, all before reaching the age of 20. His third album, *Y’all*, continues this sense of constant adventurousness while also refining the glitchy, tangy, and emotionally bruised hyperpop sound that he first gained notice for back in his SoundCloud days. First single “Appalachia” sounds ripped from the glory days of bloghouse, not unlike contemporaries Jane Remover and Frost Children. Warm saxophones reminiscent of sophisti-pop legends The Blue Nile surprisingly pop up on “Bluebirds,” while Gutierrez heads deep into straight-up trance territory with the ascendant, glorious fromage of “We Don’t Leave the House.” There are moments of striking tenderness on *Y’all*—witness the tangled guitar balladry of “i love you and it sounds stupid”—but cuts like the lurching “Modafinil” and the micro-IDM of “Vendi Vidi Vici” drive home Gutierrez’s impressive skill of melding pop smarts with intricately eggheaded electronic baubles.

glaive by Y’ALL album review by Myles Hickey for Northern Transmissions. The North Carolina artist drops on September 26th via broke records