Few artists have shaped the emotional chaos of internet-era pop music quite like glaive and kurtains. What began as teenage experimentation inside Discord servers and online production circles eventually snowballed into an entirely new language for Gen Z alternative music: hyperactive, emotionally raw, genre-melting songs that blurred the lines between pop, emo, EDM, and digital noise. Now, after years of orbiting each other creatively, the longtime friends have finally delivered a full collaborative project together.
Released earlier this month, God Save The Three feels both spontaneous and strangely mythic. The album arrives alongside a new video for “The Band,” directed by Lewis Baillie, and captures the chemistry that made the duo underground cult heroes long before the music industry fully understood what was happening around them.
More importantly, the project doesn’t sound like nostalgia. It sounds restless.
According to glaive and kurtains, the album emerged almost accidentally during an impromptu visit to Asheville in 2025. What began as a casual hang quickly evolved into a creative breakthrough with the making of “Weston Super Mare,” a melancholy but euphoric track the pair described as feeling “like the greatest song ever made.” From there, the sessions spiraled outward into something larger, eventually continuing during a recording retreat in the English countryside near the Cotswolds.
That environment seeps into the album itself. God Save The Three has a windswept, isolated quality beneath its frantic production. Songs like “Crisis” and “The Troubles” pulse with homesickness and emotional instability, while tracks such as “Spinning Around” and “The Band” explode into jagged hooks and distorted catharsis. Even at its most chaotic, the record feels deeply personal, built on years of friendship and shared artistic language.
The release also arrives during a fascinating moment in glaive’s career. Once viewed primarily as one of the faces of the hyperpop explosion, he has steadily evolved beyond the confines of that label. Projects like i care so much i don’t care at all, May It Never Falter, and last year’s Y’ALL expanded his sound into something more atmospheric, emotionally layered, and structurally ambitious. Critics from The New York Times, Vogue, The FADER, and GQ have all highlighted his ability to continuously mutate without losing the emotional immediacy that made his early work resonate so strongly.
kurtains, meanwhile, has quietly become one of the most influential producers in the online underground, shaping the sonic architecture behind some of the scene’s most emotionally volatile records. Together, the pair operate almost telepathically.
That closeness is what gives God Save The Three its emotional core. Beneath the irony, distortion, and internet-age fragmentation is something surprisingly sincere: two artists documenting friendship, distance, homesickness, and creative obsession in real time.
The result is messy, strange, emotionally overloaded, and often beautiful.
Exactly as it should be.
Featured image credit: Glaive Instagram
