Glüme

Glüme

Main Character

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***"Main Character, like the rest of Glüme’s discography, explores identity and feeling at home in yourself. But in a delightful, meta way, Main Character soundtracks a curious, free-flowing world of selves totally in keeping with the title. Glüme has composed her own musical in three acts in which she stars as the titular main character and antagonist, and it makes for excellent watching. Act 1 sees Glüme at her vibrant, bright best, opening Main Character with a handful of sparkling pop bangers. After the reflective beginnings of 'Child Actor', Glüme absolutely comes into her own on 'Do Me A Favor': simultaneously end-credits energy and opening-montage optimism, pairing lyrics about escapism with bubbly synths and sprawling production that could soundtrack any number of excited new beginnings. It’s a good note to open the new chapter of Main Character on, and fittingly cinematic too. In a similar vein, 'Dangerous Blue' is pure euphoria, glittering in falsetto and blending a pulsing club beat with dizzy, delicate melody lines, and even punctuating the rhythms with huge orchestral flourishes. “Wedding Cake Shop” is one of the record’s most avant-pop moments, a breathless walking bass and vivid storytelling alongside pure playfulness. 'Flicker Flicker' employs a darker tone, with murmured vocals over trap beats, but it’s still sensual and based around a catchy, coy hook and grounded in slick production. Glüme is at her best when she’s toying with quintessential pop tones and prodding them towards her boundaries, and it shines across Main Character. But the album's...

Glüme

The Internet

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**Glüme wants it all. Born & raised in Los Angeles, it all started with a Judy Garland biopic. When a six-year-old Glüme heard her parents arguing about money, she knew what to do. If the Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy Gale could become a star and buy her parents a house in the real world—Glüme could do it too. She stopped going to school, started taking dance lessons and started booking auditions. Baby Glüme landed roles in 102 Dalmatians, Kingdom Hearts, and a Hayao Miyazaki film, but her airy voice & melancholic aura wasn’t exactly what the Disney Channel was looking for. “There were all these happy, girl power albums, but they were all written by men. Guys would say to me, you need to be more empowering, more uplifting. I don’t have any of that to say.” Fast forward…Glüme hears Chromatics on Spotify Shuffle. Immediately, she knew that Johnny Jewel’s production was the only way the music in her head could be translated to the outside world. Her years as an actor had supplied her with enough connections to get a meeting with the president of Warner Brothers & Rihanna’s lawyer, but she couldn’t track down Johnny Jewel. Then, out of nowhere, Glüme wound up in the ICU for two weeks. After dozens of tests, she was diagnosed with Prinzmetal Angina, a rare heart disease. It felt like a door had closed. “I didn’t like the vision of myself as a sick person. So I went on The Internet.” Between...