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Glass Animals Setlist
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10/15/16 Treasure Island Music Festival
10/16/16 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre 10/25/16 London Roundhouse 10/26/16 Manchester, Academy 2 10/28/16 Liverpool, O2 Academy Liverpool 10/29/16 Dublin, Ireland Olympia Theatre 12/03/16 Riptide Music Festival 12/10/16 91X Wrex The Halls 12/14/16 Portland, OR McMenamins 01/21/17 St. Jerome's Laneway Festival 01/26/17 Brisbane, Australia Showgrounds 01/28/17 Footscray, Australia Community Arts 01/30/17 Auckland, New Zealand Albert Park 02/03/17 Adelaide, Australia Harts Mill 02/04/17 Sydney College Of The Arts 02/05/17 Fremantle, Australia Esplanade Read More
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Oxford, UK buzz band Glass Animals not only showed everyone how to be a human being, but also let everyone know those peanut butter vibes with a recent sold out all-ages appearance at Myth nightclub in suburban Maplewood.
London five-piece Pumarosa opened the show with a forty minute set of beat-laden moody but danceable sounds. Described as like PJ Harvey with electronics of The Knife (but with a twist compliments of Tomoya Suzuki who plays sax and keys) the band played in mostly dimmed blue lighting and led by singer/guitarist Isabel Munoz-Newsome.
With a handful of singles out including the newest, ‘Cecile’, expect a full album in the new year as they’ve been in and out of the studio working with producer Dan Carey (Bat For Lashes, Bloc Party). Despite their unknown status, the band connected with the crowd who danced and swayed along, and proved an ideal opener for the headliner.
The stage was set for Glass Animals on this, their How to be a Human Being Tour- inflatable cactus on both sides of the stage, a lone pineapple perched on a ledge behind the band, with the stage framed by upside-down L-shaped lighted panels along with a pastel backdrop as the quartet bravely opened up with ‘Life Itself’, a current radio hit and lead single from the recently released sophomore album How to Be a Human Being (Wolf Tone / Harvest Records / Caroline International).
Singer Dan Bayley (an American who grew up in Boston and Texas before transplanting to the UK at age 13) moved about constantly, shaking and bobbing with infectious energy, enough that the tiny Campbells soup cans on his shirt, were barely noticed.
Bayley and the rest of the band (Drew MacFarlane; Edmund Irwin-Singer; Joe Seaward) are riding high on the critical and popular success of the album, which seems more palatable and focused than its predecessor, but holds a similar degree of quirkiness and trip-hopped indietronica. Since the styles of two albums are markedly different, it initially seemed odd to hear songs from both meshed together as one set, but it worked in the end and the sold-out crowd which seemed to know most of words, needed no convincing.
The jangling ‘Hazey’ had people grooving in place and a cheer rose as the 8-bit sound effects began the mid-tempo ‘Season 2 Episode 3’. Bayley mostly let the music do the talking for most of the show, moving effortlessly between new album songs and those of Zaba, its 2014 predecessor.
“This song’s called ‘Gooey’’, Bayley nonchalantly said, introducing their biggest hit to date mid-set, and its bewildering yet mesmerizing lyric, “ you just wanna know those peanut butter vibes” as everyone sang along. Bayley jumped into the photo pit, to stand on the barriers and sing a more intimate performance as cell phones darted into the air, to capture the moment.
“Shall we do some dancing?” Bayley implored before the throbbing ‘Cane Shuga’ and the vibe continued with rapid-fire vocals over the trip hopped set closing ‘Pools’. The two-song encore (“Couple more?” Bayley asked) began with their version of Kanye West’s ‘Love Lockdown’ and found Bayley jumping into the crowd and running along the edges of the floor before climbing onto a side bar ledge to sing the song overlooking the stretched crowd that was trying to get closer.
The seventy-seven minute set ended with the new album’s ‘Pork Soda’, inspired by a comment Bayley overheard from a homeless man talking with its lyric, “Pineapples are in my head, got nobody 'cause I'm brain-dead” and sure enough the pineapple from the back of the stage was handed out to the most outreached hand from the front of the crowd.
And with that and to rave applause, the evening was done—some lucky fan in the crowd got a free pineapple, and the rest of us got hazey and gooey with Glass Animals and their peanut butter vibes.
London five-piece Pumarosa opened the show with a forty minute set of beat-laden moody but danceable sounds. Described as like PJ Harvey with electronics of The Knife (but with a twist compliments of Tomoya Suzuki who plays sax and keys) the band played in mostly dimmed blue lighting and led by singer/guitarist Isabel Munoz-Newsome.
With a handful of singles out including the newest, ‘Cecile’, expect a full album in the new year as they’ve been in and out of the studio working with producer Dan Carey (Bat For Lashes, Bloc Party). Despite their unknown status, the band connected with the crowd who danced and swayed along, and proved an ideal opener for the headliner.
The stage was set for Glass Animals on this, their How to be a Human Being Tour- inflatable cactus on both sides of the stage, a lone pineapple perched on a ledge behind the band, with the stage framed by upside-down L-shaped lighted panels along with a pastel backdrop as the quartet bravely opened up with ‘Life Itself’, a current radio hit and lead single from the recently released sophomore album How to Be a Human Being (Wolf Tone / Harvest Records / Caroline International).
Singer Dan Bayley (an American who grew up in Boston and Texas before transplanting to the UK at age 13) moved about constantly, shaking and bobbing with infectious energy, enough that the tiny Campbells soup cans on his shirt, were barely noticed.
Bayley and the rest of the band (Drew MacFarlane; Edmund Irwin-Singer; Joe Seaward) are riding high on the critical and popular success of the album, which seems more palatable and focused than its predecessor, but holds a similar degree of quirkiness and trip-hopped indietronica. Since the styles of two albums are markedly different, it initially seemed odd to hear songs from both meshed together as one set, but it worked in the end and the sold-out crowd which seemed to know most of words, needed no convincing.
The jangling ‘Hazey’ had people grooving in place and a cheer rose as the 8-bit sound effects began the mid-tempo ‘Season 2 Episode 3’. Bayley mostly let the music do the talking for most of the show, moving effortlessly between new album songs and those of Zaba, its 2014 predecessor.
“This song’s called ‘Gooey’’, Bayley nonchalantly said, introducing their biggest hit to date mid-set, and its bewildering yet mesmerizing lyric, “ you just wanna know those peanut butter vibes” as everyone sang along. Bayley jumped into the photo pit, to stand on the barriers and sing a more intimate performance as cell phones darted into the air, to capture the moment.
“Shall we do some dancing?” Bayley implored before the throbbing ‘Cane Shuga’ and the vibe continued with rapid-fire vocals over the trip hopped set closing ‘Pools’. The two-song encore (“Couple more?” Bayley asked) began with their version of Kanye West’s ‘Love Lockdown’ and found Bayley jumping into the crowd and running along the edges of the floor before climbing onto a side bar ledge to sing the song overlooking the stretched crowd that was trying to get closer.
The seventy-seven minute set ended with the new album’s ‘Pork Soda’, inspired by a comment Bayley overheard from a homeless man talking with its lyric, “Pineapples are in my head, got nobody 'cause I'm brain-dead” and sure enough the pineapple from the back of the stage was handed out to the most outreached hand from the front of the crowd.
And with that and to rave applause, the evening was done—some lucky fan in the crowd got a free pineapple, and the rest of us got hazey and gooey with Glass Animals and their peanut butter vibes.
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