glaive and kurtains release collaborative album God Save The Three; share new single ‘The Band’
glaive today unveils a new album with his longtime collaborator, best friend and underground producer prodigy kurtains. God Save The Three honours their shared dynamic which changed the DNA of pop music as we know it.
Along with the announcement of their North American and EU tour with support from Tiffany Day, they share a video for new single ‘The Band’. Directed by Lewis Baillie, it captures a wild night in London spanning pubs, pool tables and sitting shotgun at night with the windows down.
On the album, the duo share: “God Save the Three means a lot to us, we’ve known each other since we were 14 and we had always talked about making a collaborative body of work, this album came about somewhat spontaneously on an impromptu trip kurtains made to Asheville. Originally there were no plans to make any music but I suppose destiny got the best of us both ……. on the 4th of July, 2025 “Weston Super Mare” was created out of what felt like thin air. A fun yet melancholy tune that we genuinely felt was the greatest song ever made. The next day we did “Crisis,” an introspective delve into a growing homesickness that we had both experienced. kurtains then left Asheville and went home … and it was just like… we must make more….
About a month or three later we decided to make a recording trip somewhere within the north Welsh to English midlands region. We blindly booked an Airbnb, we had no idea that we were going to the Cotswolds, notorious for its bronze coloured stone buildings and reputation for a certain … higher tax bracket ….. This is where the majority of the album was made. It’s obviously beautiful to make music with people but it feels almost miraculous to make music with someone you consider a brother. God Save the Three.”
When they were still in school, glaive and kurtains led the charge of an internet-fueled sound which challenged the parameters of electronic pop music and became a cultural fascination. glaive’s latest album Y’ALL (NPR Music, Clash, The Line of Best Fit, Stereogum) — with kurtains at the helm of its production — captures the story of a teenager pulled up from his roots, finally returning to his hometown in North Carolina at twenty, a radically changed person in an unchanged place. This maturity is reflected in the scale and complexity of sound, while still setting the dancefloor alight.
glaive’s previous works cypress grove, all dogs go to heaven, and then i’ll be happy, have all cemented him as a generational artist, lauded by the likes of The New York Times, Vulture, GQ and The FADER. His second studio album of last year, May It Never Falter, was hailed as a genre-defying body of work that marked the beginning of an independent chapter in his artistry.
May It Never Falter was recorded in the remote landscapes of Iceland and Wales, continuing the Sigur Rós-inspired approach to isolated, immersive recording environments that began with his debut album i care so much i don’t care at all (2023). The album was listed as one of the best of 2024 by Vogue.
See full routing below for the God Save The Three tour.
TRACK LIST
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Weston Super Mare
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Half Two
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The Band
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Yaya Touré
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Spinning Around
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Old Freight Train Interlude
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The Front
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Let’s Link Up and Die
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UNCA / Composure
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Flyen
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The Troubles
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Crisis
GOD SAVE THE THREE – TOUR DATES
September 25 – Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theatre
September 26 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground
September 27 – Charlottesville, VA – The Jefferson Theater
September 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
September 30 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
October 2 – Buffalo, NY – Electric City
October 3 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
October 4 – Columbus, OH – The Bluestone
October 6 – Detroit, MI – Saint Andrew’s Hall
October 7 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
October 9 – Boulder, CO – The Fox Theatre
October 10 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Grand at The Complex
October 11 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
October 13 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre
October 14 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
October 16 – Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall
October 17 – Pomona, CA – The Glass House Concert Hall
October 18 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
October 20 – Mesa, AZ – The Nile Theater
October 21 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
October 23 – Austin, TX – Emo’s Austin
October 24 – Dallas, TX – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
October 25 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
October 28 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
November 17 – Cologne, Germany – Die Kantine
November 18 – Hamburg, Germany – Bahnhof Pauli
November 20 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Loppen
November 21 – Stockholm, Sweden – Fryshuset Klubben
November 22 – Oslo, Norway – John Dee
November 24 – Berlin, Germany – Lido
November 25 – Warsaw, Poland – OCZKI
November 27 – Milan, Italy – Circolo Magnolia
November 28 – Vienna, Austria – Flex
November 30 – Paris, France – Central Chapelle
December 1 – Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
