Dreamland Glass Animals Review
To put it simply Dreamland is as good as it gets.
Dreamland glass animals review. Glass animals dreamland review. Glass Animals was a group that I was never truly a fan of until I heard their latest album Dreamland Released back in August 2020 Dreamland was a great album that missed my radar simply because I was not completely invested in the bands prior releases ZABA and How To Be A Human Being. The new Glass Animals album is here and once again the Oxford lads are providing us with colourful grooves and an aesthetic sensibility so thorough its hard not to at least appreciate it from afarDreamland however seems to see the band embracing a very hip-hop and trap influenced production style alongside their already apparent indie-pop and dance music.
If anything it aides the listener into entering a dreamland. Glass Animals Dreamland Is a Woozy Trip Down Memory Lane. Dreamland Glass Animals The COVID-19 crisis has provided us no choice but to change the way we write produce promote and listen to music.
Their 2014 debut LP ZABA presented an intoxicating blend of neo-psychedelia and trip-hop and displayed both a keen ear for pop hooks and an omnivorous diet of influences from smoky big-city boom-bap to exotic tribal beats. For an album about the exhaustion of growing up in the. To Glass Animals credit that character comes across pretty strongly.
Dreamland the latest album from British studiophiles Glass Animals feels like it was created entirely within the boundless cyberspace of the microchipBut like the proverbial ghost in the machine the digitized musical emanations created by the bands singer songwriter and producer Dave Bayley along with his childhood friends Joe Seaward Ed Irwin-Singer and Drew. The album was written and produced almost. The internet is a subject Ive always been interested in when it appears in musicsee 100 Gecs hyperpop maniabut Glass Animals have made the biggest mistake possible.
The response to the song staggered the frontman the first time they performed it he broke down and cried. And Glass Animals third album Dreamland is also autobiographical. Dreamland is an album that tackles head on the bubbly colourful vapid disposable Instagram filtered infotainment-filled emptiness of modern life.
Glass Animals dont accomplish much in terms of reinventing indie pop but they certainly do have the brightness and bouncy production down pat. Since the viral disease proved serious enough for the world to shutter its doors on non-life supporting functions and typical human interaction as winter neared its end no art has been analyzed without the lens of self. The songs across Dreamland are pretty much precisely as they are marketed - woozy synths and digitized noise that feel like youre drifting in and out of a dream state.