Glass Animals – ZABA (Deluxe) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:56 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wolf Tone
“Every song on Glass Animals’ debut is a potential earworm. ZABA’s songs are both atmospheric and totally danceable, ideal for lazy Sunday mornings and hazy Friday nights. Produced by Bayley under executive production of Epworth, the album is bizarre, gorgeous, playful and dark—and it’s absolutely mesmerizing.”
– Paste Magazine
ZABA is the debut studio album by English rock group Glass Animals, released on 9 June 2014 by Wolf Tone Limited.
ZABA is primarily a psychedelic indie pop record.[9] The album’s sound is characterized by obscure tropical percussion and jungle timbres. This musical motif reflects lead singer David Bayley’s exotic subject matter, which was inspired by the William Steig children’s book The Zabajaba Jungle. To achieve this sound, Bayley would record ambient sounds of a field near his house or the chewing of rabbits and other animals, and percussive sounds of cooking utensils and children’s toys. Some of the songs were based specifically on certain adventure novels: “Toes”, for example, intends to recreate the atmosphere of The Island of Doctor Moreau and Heart of Darkness.
The Deluxe Edition features 4 stripped back versions of the album tracks.
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Glass Animals – How to Be a Human Being (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:13 minutes | 501 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wolf Tone
For this second album from British alternative rockers Glass Animals, the band created a cast of fictitious characters from all walks of life and built different stories around them, turning each story into a song. The group’s singer and songwriter Dave Bayley invented elaborate backgrounds for every character, imagining their jobs, hobbies, homes and styles of furniture, which helped him better understand their thinking in order to write these songs. Actors were then hired to portray the characters on the cover art and in videos. The album includes the top 20 alternative radio hit Life Itself.
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Glass Animals – Dreamland (Deluxe) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:04 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records
“I wanted this album to be a full reflection of life,” Glass Animals’ frontman Dave Bayley explained of their third album ‘Dreamland’ in their recent NME cover feature. Having created two albums that largely explored the lives of others (2014 debut ‘Zaba’ and its follow 2016 follow-up ‘How to Be a Human Being’, the latter of which based each of the 11 songs on a different character), their latest release marks a stark change in how the Oxfordian quartet construct an album. For the first time the work is entirely autobiographical.
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Glass Animals – Dreamland (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:24 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records
“I wanted this album to be a full reflection of life,” Glass Animals’ frontman Dave Bayley explained of their third album ‘Dreamland’ in their recent NME cover feature. Having created two albums that largely explored the lives of others (2014 debut ‘Zaba’ and its follow 2016 follow-up ‘How to Be a Human Being’, the latter of which based each of the 11 songs on a different character), their latest release marks a stark change in how the Oxfordian quartet construct an album. For the first time the work is entirely autobiographical.
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