I love the sound of this band, so I'm still a sucker for it. But it all feels a bit too perfectly calculated now. Nothing as brilliant as Heat Waves on this.
This was a bit of a head-scratcher. Coming off their most commercially successful album, Glass Animals took the sounds that produced the most streams and just turned it into a 40-minute album. Dave, coming out of a relationship, was primed to take them back up a level to the How To Be A Human Being days of experimentation and raw energy. Instead we got some half-baked over-polished emotional cliches. “Wonderful Nothing” is a banger, though.