One track not to be ignored is Pre-made Sandwiches, a 36-second long, artificially deep a-capella criticism of the banality of modern consumerism: “People complaining about losing their minds / People standing in line and they don't even know why”. Here, the same confusion arises as to whether this is about his own past lover or someone else's. In Poplar St, he reflects: “I don’t love you anymore, she said, then ceased to be”. The same flute-synth sound returns in Mama’s Gun, a bare, eerie melody that tells the tale of a housewife who hears voices and eventually makes her husband go to “Neverland”.īayley slips effortlessly into various characters, often blurring the lyrical lines between narration and personal stories. He sings about a girlfriend, presumably someone else’s, who “eats mayonnaise from a jar while she’s getting blazed” and uses “a cookie as a coaster”, in the undeniably smooth, reminiscent track Season 2 Episode 3.
A prominent flute melody drifts through Youth, the nostalgic lament of a lost son inspired by a devastating story of a teary-eyed mother Bayley met on tour. Life Itself, which sat triumphantly atop Sirius XM Alt Nation’s Top 18 for several weeks, starts with a sitar before catapulting into a percussion-heavy synth mix, and tells the tale of a self-proclaimed basement-dwelling “bum” who is “waking up, lost in boxes outside Tesco”. In The Other Side of Paradise, punchy, colourful synth flows while Bayley sings “I wish you could see the wicked truth / Caught up in a rush it's killing you”, telling of a ‘hoop phenomenon’ rising basketball star adjusting poorly to fame.
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The instrumentation on How To Be a Human Being is often upbeat with contrastingly dark lyrics, reflecting elements of sadness in each character’s tale. With their new album How To Be a Human Being, released 22 August, the Oxford ensemble dig into the messy, complex diversity of the human experience as each track serves as a narrative exploring what it is to be human: to accumulate a life’s story and to tell it. Catapulted into two years of world tours after their widely-loved 2014 record Zaba, vocalist Dave Bayley collected a treasure trove of anecdotes from strangers and fans he met along the way: a grieving mother, a lovably lazy stoner girlfriend, a murderous housewife, a homeless man with schizophrenia amongst others he met in cities across the world.
With a sound entirely of their own each Glass Animals song is an exotic tapestry of indie synth, drum machine, African & Indian beats and smooth vocals. Press play on Glass Animals’ newest record and you’ll feel transported to tropical paradise, lost in the midst of a jungle, submerged below the surface of a crystal-blue pool.