An anthem for the overthinkers, Glom’s cathartic single “Glass” is a dreamy, gut-punching collision of brightness and burnout – a magnetic indie rock fever dream that captures the bittersweet tension between fleeting bliss and the inescapable pull of anxiety, setting the stage for the band’s most raw and revelatory era yet.

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A part of me wants to be the one to tell you everything is not okay…

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Glom’s “Glass” is as instantly addictive as it is unapologetically alternative.

The melody is magnetic, the guitars are woozy and warped in all the right ways, and the lyrics hit like a punch to the gut. I’ve been singing along to this track all summer long – especially that cathartic climax: “Oh I saw it every time, I want to feel alive. I can’t do it anymore, I want to live my life. A part of me wants to be the one to tell you everything is not okay…” It’s catchy, yes, but it’s also deeply emotional – dreamy and aching, pulsing and sleek, with disarming chord choices that make you lean in. Glom are masters of balancing brightness with burnout, of marrying joy with anxiety, and nowhere is that more apparent than on this song.

Ranney’s got a piece of glass
Found it on the beach
She was digging in the sand
Right in front of me
Ranney’s got it in a stack
Right within her reach
Later on tonight I’m wishing
I’d be still at peace

Released as the latest single off their upcoming album Below (out in January 2026), “Glass” captures the core of Glom’s ethos: Raw, relatable, and profoundly human indie rock. The project of Brooklyn-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sean Dunnevant, Glom has evolved from a collaborative band into a solo endeavor and now into its most fully realized form yet – a “highly potent mixture of indelible, infectious melodic rock and lyrical introspection,” as their bio puts it. Below is Glom’s third album, following 2020’s Merit and 2019’s Bond, and it marks a new era of unfiltered songwriting from Dunnevant, who stopped hiding behind metaphor in favor of emotional transparency.

Oh I saw it every time
I want to feel alive
I can’t do it anymore
I want to live my life

(A part of me)
Wants to be the one to tell you
Everything is not okay
Honestly for me I’m almost certain
Everyone’s afraid

“‘Glass’ is a song about momentary bliss being overshadowed by debilitating anxiety,” Dunnevant tells Atwood Magazine. “I spent a lot of time with my girlfriend at the beach in 2020 and 2021. On one of these beach trips, she spent the whole time rummaging through the sand in search of sea glass. The sight of watching her methodically procure and stack these beautiful pieces of time-worn relics was marred by calls and text messages flooding my phone informing me that something was going wrong at the store where I work. I was taken out of the moment despite my attempts to resist.”

That tension – between stillness and stress, presence and panic – pulses through the track like an undercurrent, subtle but inescapable. “Glass” is a song about trying to be okay when you’re not, about holding on to beauty even as your mind betrays you. “The beach day was perfect – weather, we had the right snacks and beverages, the water was warm – yet I couldn’t not be anxious,” Dunnevant recalls. “I wasn’t even anxious about anything necessarily. It’s just an overarching problem I’ve dealt with my whole life. ‘Glass’ is about trying to cope with it.”

Finally took the trip out west
Actually not yet
I tried hard to make ends meet
It’s harder than it seems
Keep in touch with all my friends
See them on the plane
Having deja vu again
Migraine’s setting in

There’s a bittersweetness to the whole thing – nostalgic and sad, but not hopeless. It’s about feeling the weight of everything and still choosing to keep going. “I hope that ‘Glass’ brings listeners the right amount of joy and the right amount of nostalgia,” Dunnevant reflects. “And I also hope that the song helps listeners realize it’s okay to feel anxious! It’s a part of life! Some people have more than others, and that’s okay too.”

In a world that moves too fast and expects too much, “Glass” feels like a permission slip to pause, to feel, and to fall apart just a little. It’s an anthem for the overthinkers, the worriers, and the people who are just trying to hold it together – and it’s also a damn good time.

Oh the engine’s setting fire
My arms are feeling weak
Buying things won’t hide you from
The feelings you can’t speak

(A part of me)
Wants to be the one to tell you
Everything is not okay
Honestly for me I’m almost certain
Everyone’s afraid

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A CONVERSATION WITH GLOM

Glom: “Glass” is about a beach trip I took with my fiancé and some friends in 2021, as society was semi-emerging from the pandemic, so the vibes were very up and lively. Rachel (Ranney is what I call her sometimes) was literally digging in the sand and found a blue piece of sea-glass that’s depicted on the art for the single cover.

Glom: I have trouble compartmentalizing things. The beach day was perfect – weather, we had the right snacks and beverages, the water was warm – yet I couldn’t not be anxious. I wasn’t even anxious about anything necessarily, it’s just an overarching problem I’ve dealt with my whole life. “Glass” is about trying to cope with it.

Glom: I hope that “Glass” brings listeners the right amount of joy and the right amount of nostalgia, and I also hope that the song helps listeners realize it’s ok to feel anxious! It’s a part of life! Some people have more than others, and that’s okay too!

Glom: Someone recently told me that my music was fire, and that I was also funny. This was the nicest compliment I’ve ever received.

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