Glass Animals : Delicate and Fierce

Dark electronica moulded around ambient psychadelia with something so exquisitely minimal is what Glass Animals permeate their music with.  These are tunes that should be listened to over and over just to appreciate the involved layering and the beautiful wordsmanship that works it’s way over you in waves of spine tingling magnificence.

Only together since January this year, Glass Animals, insistent on creating music that steps away from the mass market have arrived at something musically that captures your interest like the first throws of love.  Ethereal in its foundations while eclectic electronic sounds and acoustic instrumentation lead the way, it’s the intelligence of the structure that blows your mind.  Music hasn’t been this moving tragically for a long time and while the obvious comparisons to The XX are already being made, Glass Animals are also vastly different.  

Flecks of dubstepping bass enter like masked intruders before retreating, as the vocals maximize over delicate guitars always there in the background dramatically building anticipation.  Every track simply ebbs and flows across the use of instrumentation while the darkness instigated by the electronics evokes a kind of tension in you more mesmerizing than sinister.

Standout track ‘Golden Antlers’ makes it hard to believe Glass Animals have been creating music for merely 4 months as it softly delivers its minimalistic blow.  Weighted with emotion that will float out of your headphones all the while keeping you anticipating the next drop, its insight is spellbinding to the extent I don’t think a track has instigated such an immediate reaction in me since Massive Attack’s ‘Teardrop’ introduced itself to my consciousness.  Luckily for you these guys are destined for ubiquity. 

The artwork is pretty fascinating too.

www.myspace.com/glassanimalsband

Words: Francesca Strange