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04 SEPTEMBER 2016
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CHARACTER BUILDING
Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley talks about the real-life folk who inspired the songs on their sophomore album.
Words: Zoë Radas A ‘60s-sophisticated siren, a lady in a
muumuu with a walking frame, a
devastated waitress, and a lost little
boy in a bomber jacket: these are a few of the
characters we’re introduced to through the
videos accompanying Glass Animals’ new
album How To Be A Human Being. Each of
them has their own song, and each is a
composite of real, “bizarre people” the band
met during tour travels.
“We started hearing all these amazing
stories,” says frontman Dave Bayley. “My
memory’s terrible – I have no memory. So I
started recording them.”
He found it a startlingly smooth way
to write, both lyrically and musically. “You
essentially write a theme song for this
person,” he says. “The writing happened so
quickly, like a week and a half, two weeks.
This time around we were particularly keen
to keep it quick.” Bandmate Drew MacFarlane
nods in agreement as Bayley adds, “I think
there comes a point where you lose that initial
spontaneity that you had, and that’s when it
starts to degrade what you’re doing.”
How To Be Human by Glass Animalsis out now.
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