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Interview with
GLU

(24th June, 2021)

Interviewer – Dave Bruce

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This week AMNplify caught up with the omnificent, alternative hip hop artists glu, to deep dive into his debut album, ULTRAGLU, released last Friday. The album written by glu and co-produced by voidhood features waves of emotion capturing a scattered but distantly whole human condition.

The lead single, VHS, hits like LSD in a dystopian future. There are moments of pure bravado broken by a flowing tuned hook, with the production rising and falling to compliment the pace and tone of each artist. Collaboratively glu and voidhood turned what would be a mash of sounds into a holistic, hard, and vibrant track allowing each artist to explore their individual influences and strengths.

glu: When I was writing this, I wanted to write something for people to get fucked up too. A lot of the album was written during CoVID, and we just couldn’t party. VHS and tracks like The Party were the manifestations of pent-up energy and frustrations of loneliness.

glu’s music is heavily inspired by several up-and-coming artists ranging from trap to pop hip hop and even diving deep into horrorcore. However, inspiration in this sense means something different to the up-and-coming rapper. 

glu: my favourite tracks right now would have to be Monstera Heaven by Too Birds, No Type by Gab3, and Liveinla 1998 by Moodymann. I’m really inspired by artists who do something really unique, and I think all these guys are incredible at creating aesthetics that are wholly their own. They don’t sound like anyone else, really, and I guess they inspire me to create the same thing with my own sound.

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Quick 5 with glu:

Which artists inspire your writing style:
It changes a lot depending on what I’m listening to at the time. I’ve been compared to Yung Lean at times for some of my slower tracks which I definitely see. I’m a big fan of his style.

Who is your favourite artist to watch live:
Playboi Carti, I was meant to go to the Too Birds show last night, but lockdown postponed it. I think their shows are gonna go off, though.

Who would you most like to collaborate with:
At the moment, it’s Too Birds. Their new album Melbourne 2 is fucking insane. I have no idea what we’d do together, but it’d be dope.

What influenced you to write:
Definitely the lockdown. It was towards the end of the major one last year, and that cooped-up feeling trying to escape drove a lot of it.

Which part of the lead single VHS: 
I really love Gio’s part; it just adds a completely different flavour to the track that breaks it up really nicely for me. I was expecting him to do some track-up rapping, but he delivered so much more than that. I was a massive fan of his before I reached out to him, and he’s honestly the dopest guy to work with.

You can find ULTRAGLU on all good streaming services and stay updated with glu on Instagram below.

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Follow GLU
Instagram – Facebook – Twitter

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Press Release 18th June 2021 below

GLU
Debut Album
‘ULTRAGLU’

Out Now!

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Melbourne’s alt hip hop breakthrough glu ups the ante with VHS the lead single of his debut album Ultraglu both set for public release on the 18th of June.

Big on energy, chaos and all things lit, glu comes correct, and with pace on VHS, a collaborative posse track featuring some of the most promising rising artists within his genre. glu, GIOVANNI from KEPLER-22 & 2B bring authority and presence taming the futuristic mashed electronic production.

The track hits like LSD in a dystopian future, there are moments of pure bravado broken by a flowing tuned hook, the production rises and falls to compliment the pace and energy of each artist. Collaboratively glu and voidhood turned what would be a mash of sounds into a holistic, hard, and vi- brant track allowing each artist to explore their individual influences and strengths.

“I really love Gio’s part, it just adds a completely different flavour to the track that breaks it up really nicely for me. I was expecting him to do some track-up rapping but what he delivered was so much more than that. I was a massive fan of his before I reached out to him and he’s honestly the dopest guy to work with.” – glu

Throughout the album glu displays his range in it’s entirety from vulnerable, aching tracks such as Tokyo and Live in a Dream, to the pure hype of The Party and VHS. The album mirror’s glu’s time in lockdown in Melbourne, capturing the chaos, the emptiness, and angsty with themes documenting the then-current energy while other tracks explore the artist’s imagination of what it would be like once the restrictions were lifted and, in his words, everyone can get lit as fuck again.

Following the release of Ultraglu, glu will continue working on his solo projects, look at booking shows as well as creating music with Big Ass Fish.

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AMNPLIFY – DB