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Glass Animals: Dreamland review – technicolour pop shaded with pain – The Guardian
Trauma has triggered a more inward-looking exploration of the Oxford quartet’s grandstanding, hallucinogenic sound
Dave Bayley, frontman of Oxford psych-pop quartet Glass Animals, has always embraced the fantastical. The groups debut set Lewis Carroll-worthy lyrics over R&B production, while their follow-up 2016s How to Be a Human Being, the album that turned them into Radio 1 stars and Mercury nominees filtered other peoples life stories through Bayleys technicolour imagination. But the very end of that record marked a shift, with the quiet ballad Agnes exploring his own experience of grief. Following t…
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