While ‘Zaba’ is full of esoteric and sometimes silly lyrics, I think I’ve managed to glean several song themes that will hopefully make it easier for those of you who might otherwise find the album hard to digest. Score! Drummer Joe Seaward described the album to me last month as “…braver, bolder, and more confident” than the previous releases described by our Martin in his Bands to Watch feature on them last year, which is a good description of the results.Ī glance through of features on the band around the blogosphere, you will notice that frontman Dave Bayley is reticent on the subject of his lyrics, even going so far as telling The Line of Best Fit’s Huw Oliver, “…I don’t want to ruin it like that for other people, just in case there’s some weirdo out there who’s come up with some kind of personal meaning to it”.
That’s not something you can say about most dance albums. Even better, this entry from Glass Animals has beguiling lyrics too. While ‘Zaba’ is definitely unique, it shares several key traits with ‘Friendly Fires’ that made it a great album to me back in 2008: interminable soul, an essence of funk and a knowing slickness one would not expect from such a young band. Albans trio were the most exciting, inventive electro dance band to come along in a long while. Upon seeing them live for the first time in Washington, I thought the St. But a better touchstone to use for the purpose of this review is a band Epworth produced several hit singles for some years ago, Friendly Fires. As one of the label’s first signings, there’s palpable pressure in the air for the Oxford band live up to their label boss’s past massive successes (hello, Adele‘s ‘Skyfall’ and its many awards). Glass Animals are releasing their debut album next week on Wolf Tone, legendary producer Paul Epworth’s new label.
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