STACK NZ Sep #77

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CHARACTER BUILDING Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley talks about the real-life folk who inspired the songs on their sophomore album.

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.”

Words: Zoë Radas

How To Be Human by Glass Animals is out now.

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NEW STORE

JB Hi-Fi has just opened its second South Island outlet, with its brand new Riccarton store in Christchurch getting off to a flying start.The new shop – JB’s 16th outlet in New Zealand – boasts the best range of DVD and Blu-ray, music and games titles, not to mention a huge range of computers,TVs and home entertainment equipment, mobile phones, cameras, portable

media players, small appliances, in-car entertainment and much, much more.

To find the nearest JB Hi-Fi store to you, visit www.jbhifi.co.nz

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