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Cypress Grove
A boy stands in front of a street sign, shaking his head.
EP by
Glaive
ReleasedNovember 19, 2020
StudioGlaive's bedroom (Hendersonville)
Length13:33
LabelInterscope
Producer
  • Glaive
  • Brakence
  • Delto
  • FortuneSwan
  • FromTheHeart
  • Jeff Hazin
  • Coleman Slaughter
  • Valentine
Glaive chronology
Cypress Grove
(2020) 		All Dogs Go to Heaven
(2021)
Singles from Cypress Grove
  1. "Astrid"
    Released: June 29, 2020
  2. "Pissed"
    Released: July 20, 2020
  3. "Touché"
    Released: October 29, 2020
  4. "Eyesore"
    Released: November 13, 2020

Cypress Grove is the debut extended play by the American musician Glaive. It was released by Interscope Records on November 19, 2020. After recording music in his bedroom at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Glaive became a leading force of the hyperpop genre and signed a deal with Interscope in October 2020. Though Glaive is categorized as a hyperpop artist, Cypress Grove pulls from multiple other genres. The EP was recorded in Glaive's childhood bedroom in Hendersonville, North Carolina and is named after a street in Flat Rock, North Carolina. The EP gained Glaive a global fanbase and received widespread critical acclaim, several publications featured its lead single "Astrid" on their year-end lists.

Background

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At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Glaive began recording music in his bedroom.[1] During June 2020, the talent manager Dan Awad discovered Glaive's song "Sick" and became his manager. Soon after, Glaive regularly appeared on Spotify's "Hyperpop" playlist,[2] became a leading force in the hyperpop genre,[3] and major record labels immediately became interested in him.[2] In October 2020, he signed a deal with Interscope Records.[2] In July 2020, he was included in Complex's list of the best new artists of July. They wrote that "Glaive is a natural songwriter with a gift for structure and melody" and that it would be easy to see his sound become more common in the mainstream.[4] The EP is named after a street in Flat Rock, North Carolina.[5] Cypress Grove was recorded in a week[5] in Glaive's childhood bedroom in Hendersonville, North Carolina.[6][7] The EP was released by Interscope Records on November 19, 2020.[7]

Composition and songs

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Though Glaive is categorized as a hyperpop artist,[1][2][5][7] Cypress Grove pulls from multiple other genres. Colin Joyce of The Fader described the EP as "collection of messy art-pop miniatures".[7] Pitchfork's Cat Zhang said the EP "is less "hyper" and more "pop"" and incorporates "Midwest emo guitar melodies and pop-punk angst."[8] Carrie Battan of The New Yorker called the EP "polished" and wrote that it pulls sounds from alternative rock, hip hop, electronic, and pop music.[9] AllMusic's Paul Simpson said the EP contains "upbeat melodies" and called it genre fluid.[10] Glaive called the EP indie pop and romantic.[11]

Cypress Grove contains seven tracks.[7] Its opening track is "Eyesore", a song about what it is like to be a teenager that wants to avoid attention. The Fader's Alex Robert Ross said it is one of Glaive's "poppier" songs and contains "a synth line that would fit just as well on Katy Perry as it might on contemporaries like OSQuinn."[12] The following "Astrid" is a desperate love song[7] that Derrick Rossignol of Uproxx said sounds like 100 gecs "but poppier and less aggressive".[13] Joyce said it "sounds like an American Football track played back at the wrong speed".[7] The track is built around a guitar line and contains "glittering" electronics, a footwork-sounding kick drum, pitched-up melodies, and a minimal chorus.[14][15] "DND" is a Midwest emo-inspired hyperpop song[16] that targets the people who started talking to Glaive only after he begun making music.[7] "Touché" is written about the discomfort and bitterness of adolescence.[17] When writing about "Hey Hi HYD", Pitchfork's Julia Gray said Glaive got away with the song's title "due to the force of his charisma rather than his age."[6] Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the penultimate "2009" contains "sweet" and "shapely melodies nearly as catchy as those on Top 40 radio."[17] The closing track "Pissed" presents Glaive singing about being irritated in an unaffected tone over a chiptune beat.[18]

Reception

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Cypress Grove gained Glaive a global fanbase[19] and, according to Tyler Damara Kelly of The Line of Best Fit, the EP received widespread critical acclaim.[20] Writing for The Fader, Ross said the EP positioned Glaive "as the most promising kid in pop music" and called him "a naturally gifted songwriter".[21] Writing for the same website, Joyce said the EP "is self-possessed and confident in a way that makes it easy to forget his age."[7] In a review of Glaive's 2021 EP All Dogs Go to Heaven for Pitchfork, Gray retrospectively called Cypress Grove "an impressive snapshot of modern adolescence."[6] Pitchfork also included the EP in their list "31 Great Records You May Have Missed: Winter 2021". Zhang called it "an easy pleasure" and thought that "no quarantine hobbyist has had a trajectory quite like Glaive."[8]

Cypress Grove's lead single "Astrid" was met with critical acclaim. It was named as the third best song of 2020 by Vice. Joyce called the track a "burst of adolescent angst, fluttering flirtations, and colorful character studies of various lost youths". He also wrote that the track shows "vibrant creativity" in a time when that is hard to come by.[14] The track was named the sixth best track of 2020 by The Fader's staff. Ross wrote that the track "burns like a sparkler" and "has one of the best opening lines of any song this year".[15] It was also included in The New York Times's list of the best songs of 2020.[22] The singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey posted the track's music video to her Instagram story.[1]

Track listing

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Cypress Grove track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Eyesore"
Hazin2:10
2."Astrid"Gutierrez
  • FromTheHeart
  • FortuneSwan
  • Valentine
1:41
3."DND"
  • Gutierrez
  • Hazin
Hazin2:17
4."Touché"
Brakence1:52
5."Hey Hi HYD"Gutierrez
1:56
6."2009"
  • Gutierrez
  • Hazin
Hazin1:50
7."Pissed"GutierrezDelto1:47
Total length:13:33

Notes

  • All tracks are stylized in lowercase.
  • "DND" stands for "do not disturb".
  • "HYD" in "Hey Hi HYD" stands for "how you doing".

Personnel

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Credits adapted from Tidal.[23]

Release history

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Region Date Format(s) Label Ref.
Various November 19, 2020
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References

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  1. ^ a b c Jolley, Ben (May 26, 2021). "glaive: teen hyperpop prodigy with fans in Lana Del Rey and Travis Barker". NME. Archived from the original on May 26, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Dandridge-Lemco, Ben (November 10, 2020). "How Hyperpop, a Small Spotify Playlist, Grew Into a Big Deal". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 10, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  3. ^ Curto, Justin (July 14, 2023). "Making Friends Low-Key Changed glaive's Life". Vulture. Archived from the original on July 14, 2023. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  4. ^ Gardner, Alex; Moore, Jacob; Bugara, Billy (July 28, 2020). "Best New Artists of the Month (July)". Complex. Archived from the original on June 27, 2023. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Walker, Sophie Leigh (June 3, 2021). "Who is glaive? Meet 16-year-old Ash Gutierrez, the poster-boy of hyperpop | Interview". The Line of Best Fit. Archived from the original on June 3, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  6. ^ a b c Gray, Julia (August 16, 2021). "glaive: All Dogs Go to Heaven EP Album Review". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on August 16, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Joyce, Colin (November 19, 2020). "glaive is writing pop's future from his small-town bedroom". The Fader. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
  8. ^ a b "31 Great Records You May Have Missed: Winter 2021". Pitchfork. March 30, 2021. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  9. ^ Battan, Carrie (August 2, 2021). "The Brash, Exuberant Sounds of Hyperpop". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on August 2, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  10. ^ Simpson, Paul. "glaive Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic. Archived from the original on November 20, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  11. ^ Young, Martyn (September 16, 2021). "Glaive: "These songs are more fuck you, I'm doing amazing now, I'm feeling great"". Dork. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
  12. ^ Ross, Alex Robert (November 13, 2020). "Hear rising hyperpop wunderkind glaive's new single "eyesore"". The Fader. Archived from the original on November 13, 2020. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  13. ^ Rossignol, Derrick (February 17, 2021). "Glaive Shares An Outdoorsy Visual For The Glitchy-Yet-Catchy Single 'Astrid'". Uproxx. Archived from the original on February 17, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  14. ^ a b "The 100 Best Songs of 2020". Vice. December 9, 2020. Archived from the original on August 13, 2024. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  15. ^ a b "The 100 best songs of 2020". The Fader. December 17, 2020. Archived from the original on December 18, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  16. ^ D'Souza, Shaad (November 20, 2020). "Sound Off: 10 New Songs You Need to Hear Now". Paper. Archived from the original on December 2, 2023. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  17. ^ a b Wood, Mikael (November 4, 2021). "Meet Glaive, the 16-year-old star of the hyperpop revolution". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 4, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  18. ^ Yalcinkaya, Günseli (March 17, 2021). "Hyperpop is the new sound for a post-pandemic world". Dazed. Archived from the original on March 17, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  19. ^ Dunn, Frankie (April 1, 2021). "glaive just conquered the hyperpop scene from his bedroom in North Carolina". i-D. Archived from the original on November 20, 2024. Retrieved November 28, 2024.
  20. ^ Kelly, Tyler Damara (May 18, 2023). "glaive shares details of his debut album, i care so much that i dont care at all". The Line of Best Fit. Archived from the original on February 4, 2024. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  21. ^ Maicki, Salvatore; Darville, Jordan; Renshaw, David; Ross, Alex Robert; Sajae, Elder (June 10, 2021). "10 songs you need in your life this week". The Fader. Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
  22. ^ Pareles, Jon; Caramanica, Jon; Zoladz, Lindsay (December 7, 2020). "Best Songs of 2020". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 7, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  23. ^ "Credits / cypress grove / Glaive". Tidal. Retrieved November 24, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  24. ^ Cypress Grove release formats:
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