New Music Friday #Happens With Glass Animals

July 19th, 2024

UK 4-piece Glass Animals release their fourth album, I Love You So F***ing Much, today via Republic. The new 10 song collection includes the lead single “Creatures In Heaven.” Glass Animals debuted the first song on the album “Show Pony” last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch it HERE. This morning, the band chatted with Anthony Mason on CBS Mornings about the new album and its creation process as well as their upcoming tour.

Glass Animals frontman/producer David Bayley said, “I love you so f***ing much, I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH, I love you SO f***ing MUCH, I love you so F***ING much, I LOVE you so f***ing MUCH. These words take on a different meaning every time you say them. The universe may make us feel overwhelmingly small, but we have this human connection that is far vaster and more mysterious. Love comes in an infinite number of forms and shapes and sizes. It is so complex, and so powerful that even witnessing the tiniest instance of it can change your life forever.”

Painting 10 portraits of love in all its messy forms, I Love You So F***ing Much is the most personal record that Bayley has ever written. “Show Pony,” the album’s opening track, is a lucid tale of a relationship from start to finish. Bayley shares, “Our first blueprints of love are the relationships we see and experience growing up. They aren’t always perfect, but they completely shape our understanding of love. That’s why I wanted ‘Show Pony’ to open the album. It throws you in at the deep end, but that’s life.” 

I Love You So F***ing Much is the follow-up to the band’s 2020’s critically revered Dreamland, which sold over 12 million copies globally and featured the breakout single “Heat Waves.”  The Oxford band’s other releases include How To Be A Human Being (2016), and Zaba (2014).

Having performed a string of intimate, underplay pop-up shows for fans across the world, including Elsewhere in Brooklyn this past week, Glass Animals begins their U.S. leg of  “Human Musical Group Sensations Glass Animals Tour Of Earth” on August 7th in Charlotte. Find the tour dates HERE