{"id":383998,"date":"2021-12-20T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/glass-animals-long-road-to-overnight-success\/"},"modified":"2021-12-20T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:17:52","slug":"glass-animals-long-road-to-overnight-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/glass-animals-long-road-to-overnight-success\/","title":{"rendered":"#Glass Animals\u2019 long road to overnight success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be7bb451a2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/glass-animals-long-road-to-overnight-success\/#Dave_Bayley_of_the_British_band_looks_back_over_a_breakout_year_and_tough_time_that_preceded_it\" >Dave Bayley of the British band looks back over a breakout year and tough time that preceded it.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Glass Animals\u2019 long road to overnight success<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dave_Bayley_of_the_British_band_looks_back_over_a_breakout_year_and_tough_time_that_preceded_it\"><\/span>Dave Bayley of the British band looks back over a breakout year and tough time that preceded it. <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227498\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p> 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1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MT_GLASSANIMALS_PROSPECTPARK-36_re2_crop_copy_dekqa7\/glass-animals-interview-dreamland-heat-waves.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MT_GLASSANIMALS_PROSPECTPARK-36_re2_crop_copy_dekqa7\/glass-animals-interview-dreamland-heat-waves.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"Glass Animals\u2019 long road to overnight success\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227497\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            There has been a sense of familiarity in the rhyme and rhythm of indie rock band Glass Animals this past year. Months after its release, the fourth single from the four-piece\u2019s third studio album <i>Dreamland<\/i> \u2013 an amorphous, booming track titled \u201cHeat Waves\u201d \u2013 went from bubbling under to boiling over. The song had arrived at the peak of our first pandemic summer in June 2020. Then, seven months later, it entered <i>Billboard<\/i>\u2019s Hot 100 for the first time and spent the next 42 weeks climbing to the top 10, breaking the record for longest trek to the feat. It was a natural hit. They had been here before \u2013 albeit on a much smaller scale, comparatively. \u201cGooey,\u201d the distorted, hazy lead single from the band\u2019s 2014 debut album <i>Zaba<\/i>, became a blog-era SoundCloud favorite, finding itself plastered around Tumblr and slotted onto 8tracks playlists. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cYou don\u2019t really understand what\u2019s h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening,\u201d frontman Dave Bayley tells The FADER. \u201cYou just never expect either of those things.\u201d Glass Animals originated as the passion project of Bayley, bassist Ed Irwin-Singer, guitarist Drew MacFarlane and drummer Joe Seaward in Oxford, England over a decade ago. With no knowledge of the industry, or why anyone would even want them to release music, the band figured it out along the way \u2013 mostly on the road. They were a touring act and comfortable in their fate as such. But in 2018, a truck struck Seaward as he rode his bike in Dublin, Ireland, leaving him fighting for his life and having to relearn motor skills as simple as speaking. \u201cI was very much in a personal lockdown,\u201d Bayley says. \u201cWe all were, as a band. The future was doomed.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227500\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glass Animals - Heat Waves (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRD0-GxqHVo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227499\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            The terror-striken fear of losing their best friend cast a fog around them that dissipated as Seaward convalesced. \u201cWe kind of thought that maybe was the end of the project,\u201d Bayley remembers. \u201cThen he made this miracle recovery and then boom \u2013 pandemic.\u201d There was that feeling again. They\u2019d been here before. Convinced the band would never work without touring, he found himself asking: \u201cAre we facing the end of this again?\u201d If there was even the slightest chance that <i>Dreamland<\/i> would be the final Glass Animals record, it meant enough that they would at least be going out on a high note. As lead songwriter and producer, Bayley unseated his deep-rooted memories and nostalgia to craft the band\u2019s first autobiographical album. If these moments of uncertainty were going to continue popping up and a sudden end would always be looming, would there ever be a better time to start taking risks? <\/p>\n<p>            \u201cWhat keeps you on your toes is always trying to do something new and change direction,\u201d Bayley explains of his approach to <i>Dreamland<\/i>. \u201cSometimes it is very frightening taking those risks, especially in this case when you\u2019re taking a risk that is you. You\u2019re putting yourself out there in a very direct and personal way.\u201d To share this album was like unbinding the pages of a diary, opening a window above a crowded city and letting them blow away. \u201cHeat Waves\u201d itself has amassed hundreds of millions of streams, but it started as a solitary effort born from the late night remembrance of a departed friend whose birthday resurfaces grief each passing June. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cWe spend so much time distracting ourselves from thinking about the past \u2026 trying not to think about a lot of the things that actually made you who you are,\u201d Bayley observes. \u201cWhat this album was for me was looking back at the formative memories, the memories that really did change me.\u201d Elsewhere on the record, he uses cultural touchstones like Pok\u00e9mon, Dunkaroos and Kodak film as points of reference in trying to make sense of the way childhood experiences follow you into adulthood, warping innocent curiosity into a matured confusion. He thinks of them as tiny comfort blankets. \u201cWhen you\u2019re writing a song, you don\u2019t have that many words to play with quite often,\u201d he says. \u201cSo you\u2019re trying to paint as deep a picture as you can with as few words as possible.\u201d <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227502\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glass Animals - Space Ghost Coast To Coast (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WSEpDD8j6-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227501\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Condensed within <i>Dreamland<\/i> are tales of domestic abuse (\u201cDomestic Bliss\u201d) and an old friend who planned but never executed a school shooting (\u201cSpace Ghost Coast To Coast\u201d). There are musings on the roots of insecurity and gaining wisdom from memories tucked beside hyper-specific, visual recollections of the past. Earlier this year, Bayley furthered his retrospective journey by breaking the album down into three EPs sorted by age: Childhood, Adolescence and Adulthood. Childhood houses the three home <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> that initially functioned as interludes of his mother\u2019s voice from his time growing up in Texas. Adolescence features the Little Ann-sampling \u201cHot Sugar,\u201d which explores that young, often misguided desire to be like someone else, mining for portions of their personality and calling it love. \u201cHeat Waves\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s All So Incredibly Loud\u201d play key roles in the Adulthood collection, examining the two-sided coin of inflicting emotional pain on others and being on the receiving end, too. <\/p>\n<p>            \u201cThose things have sentiments and add more context to the music,\u201d Bayley explains. \u201cIn a way it sort of helped me digest how each of those larger eras changed who I was, rather than a song-specific moment.\u201d While they aren\u2019t all firsthand accounts of his own stories, the writing reflects pivotal moments he was present for, directly connected to and forever changed by. It\u2019s a stark shift in content from Glass Animals\u2019 first two records which relied on abstraction and outsourcing for their lyrical material. \u201cI was really shy and didn\u2019t know what I was doing,\u201d he remembers. \u201cI was afraid of singing, to be honest. I was afraid of people understanding what I was saying.\u201d For their sophomore record, 2016\u2019s <i>How To Be A Human Being<\/i>, Bayley figured out that he could circumvent having the spotlight on himself by using Glass Animals to narrate other people\u2019s stories. <\/p>\n<p>            \u201cThere\u2019s stories about people on there who [told] me about love and lust, and their relationship with their mother and their father,\u201d he says, recalling finding himself within those narratives. \u201cYou\u2019re digesting your own life at the same time as telling the stories of these other people. And I guess I just never really had the guts. I felt a bit scared to talk about myself explicitly.\u201d The push of confidence he needed came from the heartfelt audience response to \u201cAgnes,\u201d the only personal song on <i>How To Be A Human Being<\/i> which reels in the aftermath of a friend\u2019s death by suicide. Having found deep-rooted connection within one of the most honest songs he\u2019d ever written, Bayley continued to seek out that relation on <i>Dreamland<\/i> with the newfound knowledge that he didn\u2019t have to hide. <\/p>\n<p>            In the weariness of the pandemic, he fostered this sense of connection through collaboration. Glass Animals created a classic desktop homepage via <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/opensource.glassanimals.com\/\">Open Source<\/a> with complete access to the stems and artwork from <i>Dreamland<\/i>. What resulted was hundreds of fan submissions reimagining the hyper-personal record in their own way. \u201cWithout that stuff coming off of everybody who was listening, I would\u2019ve just felt like a total spectator to this whole thing,\u201d Bayley says, nodding to the weight of his pandemic anxiety rooted in how the record would be received. \u201cAs lovely as the email updates and the numbers ticking on a screen are, that\u2019s not what gets you up in the morning.\u201d He\u2019d seen the product of his own mental excavating repurposed as 3D-printed PEZ dispensers in the shape of his head and a \u201cHeat Waves\u201d remix courtesy of a 10-year-old which Bayley says is better than the original. It all made him feel real, as opposed to \u201can anxious, neurotic black hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            Dreamland\u2019s resonance was fully realized when Glass Animals finally made it back out onto the road \u2013 celebrating not only the return of live music, but also Seaward\u2019s recovery \u2013 with sold out shows across the US. Then, in November, the band received their first ever Grammy Awards nomination. Next month, they\u2019ll go up against Olivia Rodrigo, The Kid LAROI, Japanese Breakfast, FINNEAS and more for Best New Artist. Even if they are a decade into their career, they\u2019ve hit a new stride and are seeing the payoff. \u201cFor someone who\u2019s quite shy, [<i>Dreamland<\/i>] was incredibly difficult to even put out. It felt like such a risk, putting yourself out there,\u201d Bayley shares. \u201cYou make yourself quite vulnerable. And to have this at the end of that, it makes it feel a little less vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            He admits that he\u2019s still self-conscious playing the role of both subject and narrator, but he\u2019s learned all the ways in which the reward can outweigh the risk of vulnerability. \u201cThe thing that I was clinging onto as a bit of a north star the whole time was thinking about my favorite songs written by other people and how much their openness and honesty meant to me when I was listening to their music,\u201d he says. \u201cIt quite often justified the way that I was feeling when I was feeling my worst. Those really personal songs, they saved me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            For Bayley, the guiding principle behind it all is simple: \u201cIf you can write something personal, it has such an effect. 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