Glassio, an indie dance meets dreamy electronic musician, has released his latest single ‘The Weekend,’ which is from his upcoming album See You Shine.
Sam R, an Irish-Iranian singer, composer, and producer, has created his alias Glassio, an Indie-Dance/Dream-Pop project. His music combines Electronica, New Wave, and Dance-Pop components, as well as Beach Boys-style harmonies and production textures reminiscent of Air and Massive Attack.
Influenced by an all-night bender in Brooklyn and the NYC dance scene, Glassio confides, “My single The Weekend is all about putting on a new identity during the weekend and living a different life and reality just for a little while before the work week’s resumption. It’s about celebrating that different side of you in an environment that you might not tell all of your friends and family about. It’s your secret and you are embracing it whole-heartedly.”
In early 2016, Glassio’s debut track “Try Much Harder” topped the Spotify Global Viral Charts. A string of popular singles followed in 2017 and 2018, totalling over 5 million Spotify streams. Glassio’s hits “Morning House,” “Daydream,” and “Back for More” catapulted him to the top tier of up and coming electronic musicians in NYC. They quickly found themselves opening for artists such as Fujiya and Miyagi, Electric Youth, and Miami Horror.
In 2018, Sam R. released the Age of Experience EP as a solo project, which Mother Jones hailed as “evidence that electronic music and superb storytelling are a natural fit.” The EP has received over 5 million listens across all platforms and includes the song “Back for More,” which was featured on HBO’s Here & Now.
Then, in July 2020, his debut album, For The Very Last Time, was published. It was later chosen by Bandcamp as one of the greatest electronic releases of July 2020, and it earned accolades from sites such as Consequence of Sound and Fader. Glassio currently has over 12 million streams and has gotten praise from publications like NYLON, Billboard, Notion, LADYGUNN, and others.
See You Shine, his sophomore album will be released this year, a 14-track body of work that recounts the flight of young adults from a tiny community that rejects them because of their convictions and into the depths of Arizona’s deserts, hoping for a new life in a faraway metropolis.
The album is also dedicated to his late father and explores themes of perseverance in the face of grief/loss brought on by the epidemic. The tone of the album combines Glassio’s love of French and British techno music with singer-songwriter clichés comparable to Jackson Browne or Wilco.
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