Glaive is Ash Gutierrez from Hendersonville, North Carolina, who started uploading to SoundCloud during the 2020 lockdown as a teenager and became one of hyperpop and digicore's defining voices. I Care So Much That I Don't Care at All (2023, Interscope) shows how far past hyperpop he has grown. Explore Glaive vinyl, CDs, and EPs at Wax Trax Records.
Ash Gutierrez, performing as Glaive (lowercase styling), was born in Hendersonville, North Carolina on February 22, 2005. He launched his recording career on SoundCloud during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 as a teenager, with his early work establishing him as one of the prominent voices in the contemporary hyperpop and digicore scenes. He signed with Interscope Records in 2020. He has continued releasing material across multiple EPs, mixtapes, and LPs in the early 2020s, with progressively expanded sonic territory beyond his hyperpop origins.
Glaive's sound combines hyperpop, digicore, emo, alternative rock, and indie pop with extensive use of pitched-up vocals, distorted production, and synthesis of post-emo, pop punk, and electronic music traditions. His work has been a defining voice in the early-2020s hyperpop and digicore scenes alongside ericdoa, midwxst, and others.
Interscope pressings of the Glaive catalog have been issued in color variant editions.
Listeners new to Glaive typically start with I Care So Much That I Don't Care at All (2023) or the early EPs.
