GLU Gets Wrapped Up With ‘My Demons’ & Shares The Songs That Sired This New Sound (EXCLUSIVE)

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Everyone struggles with their ain demons, but GLU seems blessed to walk a fewer much hours with them connected “My Demons,” the rubric way to his upcoming ep. In “My Demons,” GLU – the caller hip-hop-infused stone moniker from Michael Shuman – details however it’s hard to discontinue the atrocious habits, and similar hitting the snooze connected his morality alarm clock, helium begs for possibly 15 much minutes with these vices. A trippy acquisition from commencement to decorativeness — made adjacent much alluring with vocals from Phantogram’s Sarah Barthel — “My Demons” is simply a dynamic instauration to this caller philharmonic venture. If the opus wasn’t tempting enough, GLU dropped a red-hued video to travel the track, giving thing tasty for your eyes arsenic good arsenic your ears.

“As acold arsenic the euphony goes, I wanted to bash thing that challenged me,” GLU tells HollywoodLife. His alter-ego, Michael Shuman, is known for playing bass successful the Josh Homme-led Queens of the Stone Age and for fronting the stone band Mini Mansions. GLU, a solo task that treads much down the hip-hop path, is “something I’d ne'er done,” says GLU. “I’ve been successful bands my full life, penning from a punk stone mindset, whose origins thin to travel from riffs. The lone happening I hadn’t done is truly excavation into lyrics and having the machine besides beryllium an instrument.”

“The sanction GLU comes from a person of excavation telling maine that I’m the glue successful each of my philharmonic endeavors and friendships,” helium continues. “Also, during the name-picking process, which is the worst happening to person to do, my aunt sent maine a missive written astir my grandfather. It talked astir memories from him successful the war, arsenic good arsenic what benignant of antheral helium was to this family. It stated that ‘he was successful the glue successful each situation.’ That’s each I truly needed to perceive to marque the determination astir what sanction genuinely represented me.”

GLU’s gramps besides factors into the EP’s screen art, specifically the ringing helium wears connected the artwork. “It’s my grandfather’s ring. His initials,” helium shares. “But it seems to support showing itself to person galore meanings successful my life. I’m not overmuch of an astrology person, but it’s kinda similar that. You commencement to spot each of these things that align with that sign, things that support showing themselves successful your life.”

MY DEMONS – retired Feb. 24 — begins with the rubric track, goes to the antecedently released “COLD SWEAT” and “NIGHT SHIFT” earlier “MOONWALKIN'” earlier closing with “F****D WITH MY DEMONS.” With the task starting and finishing with “demons,” 1 mightiness deliberation there’s a thread connecting the songs connected the release. Not so. “It’s not a conception grounds oregon anything, but due to the fact that it was written and recorded wrong the aforesaid timeframe, everything seems to necktie successful together,” GLU tells HollywoodLife.

“This was each done by myself during the lockdown,” helium continues. “So that clip play truly allowed maine to bespeak connected who I americium present and what successful my past got maine here. Was dealing with not being capable to circuit and play euphony anymore, which is simply a hard happening to halt acold turkey. I conjecture immoderate of my vices lingered connected and done the penning and signaling of the record.”

The play of GLU’s instauration was 1 of stillness and dread, which mightiness explicate the quality of the songs connected MY DEMONS. But, whereas different artists propulsion their vocals into the red, howling with the vexation of a 1000 dire wolves, GLU approaches the gloom and doom with a subdued, peaceful cadence.

“It’s kinda conscionable however I roll,” helium says. “People thin to accidental I’m beauteous calm and collected. Although I person OCD thoughts perpetually going connected successful my head, I effort my champion to settee them and not fto them get the champion of me. Like Bad Brains said, I got that PMA. So erstwhile it comes to my vocal transportation for GLU, it conscionable feels similar myself. Very natural. And possibly the astir myself I’ve ever been.”

Fans tin find that earthy GLU successful the dusk hours. When asked what’s the champion clip to enactment connected MY DEMONS, helium tells HollywoodLife that it mightiness beryllium the champion mode to extremity your nighttime (right arsenic the time is starting.) “I deliberation the EP was made successful and designed for nighttime listening. The after after-party,” helium says. “It whitethorn beryllium a solo listening endeavor, but similar a bully portion oregon film, tin beryllium enjoyed with friends. Oh, and it drops connected February 24th.”

To assistance you get amended acquainted with GLU, he’s besides provided a playlist of songs that straight inspired the instauration of the caller sound:

Gorillaz, “Clint Eastwood”

First Gorillaz opus I heard that opened my eyes to the possibilities of starting anew.

DJ Shadow and Run The Jewels, “Nobody Speak”

One of my favourite collaborations. Perfect premix of existent instrumentation and samples.

Mac Miller, “Good News”

Love the Jon Brion power connected Mac. You tin truly perceive the philharmonic collaboration of their 2 worlds connected this.

Depeche Mode, “Sweetest Perfection”

One of my favourite nighttime tracks.

Benee, “Soaked”

I don’t emotion a batch of pop, but I deliberation Benee does the cleanable occupation of blending popular euphony with psychedelic influences. Great accumulation connected this. Would emotion to collab with her.

Beethoven, “Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement)”

Influenced my track, Moonwalkin’. Was virtually learning however to play it each time during lockdown connected piano, and conscionable leaked into immoderate sounds and lyrics connected the EP.