Four years feels like forever, but also no time at all. For 21-year-old Ella Smoker, she spent that time sketching out the beginnings of her adopted moniker, gglum—collaborating with talented musicians in London, releasing two EPs and finding a home at Secretly Canadian, a label with an uncanny knack for scoping out unique and provocative voices.
Her desire to make noise wasn’t driven by an internal desire to be a musician so much as it was catalyzed by the influence of her rockabilly-loving parents. “My dad is a record collector as a hobby,” she says. “In our house, we have a wall that’s just shelves full of records. I always remember him just playing music around the house all the time. It’d be really old vinyl. My parents dancing around to the records my dad was playing is probably one of my earliest memories.
Influenced by her friends, such as the effervescent Jadu Heart and dynamic Mura Masa, she began putting more of these musical diary entries on SoundCloud. It became a tradition for her and her friends to make a big fuss about each other’s releases to celebrate their craft and companionship.
With this newfound appreciation for collaboration, Smoker leaned on her friend Sam Knowles, a.k.a. Karma Kid, to help with production for. The pair met in 2021, when Smoker was encouraged to branch out and start working on sessions with other musicians. The product of their first time working together was “ELEVENS,” off.
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