Alternative
England
Glass Animals
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About Glass Animals
Hometown
Oxford, England
Formed
January 1, 2010
Genre
Alternative
According to legend, Glass Animals chose their name by picking two words out of the dictionary at randomâbut you couldnât come up with a better combination for a group that toes the line between the pristine and primal. On their 2014 debut, Zaba, the Oxford quartet aligned themselves with a storied lineage of abstract alt-rockâthe moody atmospheres of Radiohead, the tropical textures of Animal Collectiveâbut in Dave Bayley, Glass Animals possess an uncommonly smooth singer who could mold those left-field influences into sultry, R&B-flavored pop songs. While the album made them indie darlings, it also earned the group admirers beyond the typical NME readerâthe 2015 single âLose Controlâ saw them team up with Brooklyn MC Joey Bada$$ for a trippy rap track. That sense of anything-goes openness fully flourished on 2016âs How to Be a Human Being, whose procession of freaky, funky anthems and synth-smeared slow jams earned Glass Animals their first Mercury Prize nomination. But after drummer Joe Seaward was nearly killed in a 2018 cycling accident, Glass Animals dialed down the eccentricity for 2020âs Dreamland, a more intimate record that further harmonized the art-rock/club-pop dialectic at the heart of their music. Speaking about the single âYour Love (DĂ©jĂ Vu)â to Apple Music, Hayley said, âThe idea was to take my favorite â90s producers like Timbaland and The Neptunes and the way they used samples, yet record a lot of those sounds in the way The Beatles or Beach Boys mightâve done it... and then taking Beatles and Beach Boys sounds and resampling them as [those producers] mightâve done.â That Dreamland cracked the Top 10 in both the UK and US is a testament to Glass Animalsâ gift for melding different styles and eras into the sound of now.
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