Glassio x Beauty Queen whispering, psych-electro pop anthem
LASSIO BIO
Built around the melodic and lyrically oblique songwriting of Irish-Persian musician Sam R., Glassio has become one of New York City’s staple Indie-Electronic outfits over the past 7 years, garnering millions of streams online and amassing a loyal fanbase around the world. Born out of a love for applying a melodic sweetness to brooding dance beats, the indie-pop outfit has carved out a unique sound that often bridges influences from Big Beat to Chamber Pop to New Wave.
Born and raised in both Sharjah in the Middle East and Monterey in California, Sam R. fell in love with music listening to Pet Sounds and Graceland on his way to school in the mornings. “It was that juxtaposition of hearing Brian Wilson’s harmonies in a very barren, desert/Arabian landscape that I think planted the seeds for my love for making music that mixes different influences and challenges associations you might have with certain instruments,” Sam explains.
A Debut EP Poptimism was released in 2016 to critical acclaim and viral success with lead single “Try Much Harder” peaking at No. 9 on the Global Viral Charts on Spotify. A series of singles and the Age of Experience EP followed in 2018, further cementing Glassio as an act that “proves that electronic music and great storytelling are a perfect match.”
A full length album, For The Very Last Time, was released via Downtown Music in 2020, garnering over 7 million streams online, and recognition from Bandcamp as one of the best electronic albums of the year. The record featured guest vocals from Brooklyn-based songwriter Daneshevskaya. Follow up album, See You Shine, made waves in Europe, charting at No. 1 on multiple iTunes Charts around the world. Lead single “Breakaway” was featured in Amazon Studios’ feature film Don’t Make Me Go and Netflix’s Locke and Key.
2023 and 2024 will see the release of a string of collaborative singles, starting with “A Friend Like You” featuring LA-based Indie-Dream-Pop artist Beauty Queen, and follow up single “Will You Still Come Back Tomorrow?” featuring Rodes Rollins and Mumble Tide.
BEAUTY QUEEN BIO
Beauty Queen is the dreamy indie-pop project of Katie Iannitello. With music produced by indie darlings Tennis, Beauty Queen crafts beachy, washed out music that is making waves across the bedroom pop scene.
Delivering a sound that is at once unmistakably relevant and delightfully old-fashioned, Beauty Queen offers the perfect soundtrack to crying in the bathroom at a high school dance. The young artist continues to hit her stride and push the limits of her sound with two forthcoming singles produced by husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley of indie-pop band Tennis. Working with the indie royalty was a dream come true for Ianitello, who counts Tennis among her biggest musical influences. “The way they worked together was really inspiring,” she reflects on the three days spent recording “Sweet Memory” and “Two of Us” in their Denver, Colorado studio in three days.
With daring synthesizers and a more mature direction, Beauty Queen’s new music marks a bold coming-of-age from the lo-fi teenage dream conjured on Out of Touch. The meandering, sun-soaked daydream of an EP, written by Iannitello and produced by Henry Nowhere (Daywave), won over a number of press outlets including Line of Best Fit and Highclouds with its effervescent guitars and gliding synths. The influence of her laidback Hawaiian upbringing on her sound shows itself in her languid song structure, and the distant apathy toward pop culture that marked her teen years instead bred in her an obvious appreciation for music from decades past. Ianitello’s lilting croon is a mainstay on the new music as well as the EP, both of which teem with 1950s songwriting influence and indie charm.
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