Comprising of four childhood friends, Glass Animals have been gathering steady momentum since the release of their first EP in 2012.

With Dave Bayley on lead vocals, songwriting duties and production, he has fantastic support from collaborators, Drew MacFarlane, Edmund Irwin-Singer and Joe Seaward all working closely together; they have grown a reputation of an immense live act, with their blend of psychedelic and pop and have appeared on some of the worlds most influential stages which has helped them reach a global audience. 

You probably won’t have heard a release like Your Love (Deja Vu), with the psychedelic synths bringing you straight into the song, plus muted guitars that send a funk vibe into the rhythm as the verse and chorus develop. What's really interesting is the vocals and their processing. They’re overdubbed, but in such a way that make Dave Bayley’s voice sound incredibly fresh and unique. The breaks use of strings and beat that push Your Love (Deja Vu) along are really fascinating, and provide an excellent backdrop for the fast vocal to lead the way, with a diverse, well paced pattern of lyrics that has RnB influences, yet fits seamlessly and gives this genre of music a real energy and complexness that could go wrong! But thanks to the clever production and excellent musicianship, it holds together and creates so many opportunities for variations around the theme that it keeps you glued to it, right until the very end. 

Glass Animals have clearly looked to many different influences to produce this song and define their sound to a wider audience. With chart success in multiple countries already, their following and sales are growing and you anticipate that soon their pop enthused psychedelic music is going to reach an even wider audience. 

 Psychedelic pop 

Author: Phil Arnold

Phil Arnold is a musician, producer and music reviewer from Devon, in the South West of England. Whilst not writing music reviews, Phil also writes and records under the name of Ugbrooke.