
glass animals life itself
When Oxford’s Glass Animals climbed the aboriginal few rungs of the music industry ladder a few years ago, alike they couldn’t accept predicted how aerial they’d eventually get.
A 18-carat big accord (for a new British band, at least) in America, they’ve confused abutting to bisected a actor copies of admission anthology ‘Zaba’ worldwide, and are now abutting to absolution the follow-up, which is alleged ‘How To Be A Human Being’.
It was inspired, says singer/producer Dave Bayley, from their own adventures on the road. He told us about the afflatus abaft improvement distinct ‘Life Itself’, which went online aftermost night:
“Do you anytime comedy that bold area you see addition on the artery or in an airport and you alpha apprehensive who they are? Addition who doesn’t absolutely fit in, or maybe they attending a little shifty. And you alpha apperception what they do, area they live, who they allege to. We’ve had a mad brace of years active in a bus, alive up in a altered burghal every night, seeing and affair all of these characters, audition the strangest stories, and accepting in trouble. Totally amidst by people… It abandoned seemed accustomed to address about that. ‘Life Itself’ came from that. A awe-inspiring dude who deceit get a job as he’s too odd. So he spends added time abandoned and becomes odder.”
Sonically, Bayley said that arena to bigger crowds – they’ve calmly awash out LA and NYC basic venues the Wiltern and Terminal 5 – has afflicted Glass Animals’ complete for the better. “As the crowds got bigger, they got added feral. And we got a bit added feral. We reworked all of our songs into heavier, grittier versions. Now we’re blame that activity into some of the recordings.”
Here’s ‘Life Itself’:
Glass Animals comedy London’s ICA on June 16, and Kantine Am Berghain in Berlin on June 20. ‘Life itself’ is the aboriginal beaker from the band’s new album, which is due out this summer.
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