Glass Animals Dreamland Review

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Glass animals dreamland review. Dreamland is a hazy nostalgic treatise on how growing up in the 1990s and the virtual age can shape a musician. All this publications reviews Read full review. Sonically Dreamland pushed Glass Animals into exactly that.

Glass animals for better and for worse have always been a band in search of an identity. Stuffed with effervescent nuggets of pop gold The Oxford band have overcome a period of intense adversity to bring you a record of deeply personal tales. 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.

Elsewhere Dreamland is just as musically layered and engaging as ever with plenty of wiggly synths and bouncy beats on tracks such as Tangerine and Melon and the Coconut and slinky sensuality on Hot Sugar Glass Animals most cohesive and satisfying album to date Dreamland is a well-deserved triumph thats as rewarding for fans to. But Glass Animals albums were never an ideal place to bare ones soul and Dreamland comes across like a guy trying to tell you his life story in a packed Coachella tent. According to Glass Animals You go make an album and call it Dreamland.

Glass Animals Dreamland review. Glass Animals for better and for worse have always been a band in search of an identity. Dreamland review technicolour pop shaded with pain Polydor Trauma has triggered a more inward-looking exploration of the Oxford quartets grandstanding hallucinogenic sound.

In the opening song and title-track Bayley sets out their newest vision in meta fashion. The response to the song staggered the frontman the first time they performed it he broke down and cried. Although the release expresses their collective trauma resulting from drummer Joe Seawards near-fatal brain injury it.

To put it simply Dreamland is as good as it gets. Sadly though that character comes across pretty strongly. 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.