Glassio

“To anyone who’s waited four years for another full-length album, the wait ends tonight. Thank you for sticking by. And to anyone who’s found me more recently, I’m grateful you’re here and can’t wait to share this album with you,” he shared a few hours ago, just before unveiling his new project to the world. This is not just a release, it is a return. The final preview before the drop came three weeks ago with I’m So Far Away, now included in the tracklist. In less than a month, the song has garnered nearly fifty thousand streams, quietly building momentum ahead of the full project. It offered an early glimpse into the emotional landscape Glassio is navigating here.

When we last featured him at the end of 2023, he was exploring variation through an EP built around different versions of the same composition. With The Imposter, that introspection expands across thirteen tracks written after relocating from New York to London and embracing sobriety. Conceived as a self-portrait in motion, the album navigates doubt, distance, and reconstruction, documenting what happens when illusion begins to fall away.

Tracks like Join the Club and Give Me Back My Future introduce a tension between expectation and fatigue, while Downtown Hero and I’m So Far Away lean into reflection. At its core, the record circles a persistent question about identity and purpose, most directly addressed in Hit or Bliss, a spoken reflection on creation and survival. “For a time, I lost my sense of self,” Sam admits. “I’d been performing roles — for people, for the industry, for an idea of who I thought I was supposed to be. This album was me stripping all that away and finding the real voice underneath.” 

That sense of searching runs from Join the Club to the closing Take a Look at the Flowers, featuring Madge. “That song became my way of ending the loop,” he explains. “After all the searching, it’s just about stopping for a second — seeing what’s still blooming around you. It’s the record’s exhale.”