Apr 04, 2024 By Mark Redfern

British four-piece Glass Animals have announced a new album, I Love You So F***ing Much, and shared its first single, “Creatures in Heaven.” They have also announced a world tour. More

Jun 27, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Couldn’t make it to Glastonbury this past weekend? We have you covered, with highlights from some of the performances including ones by Wolf Alice, Jessie Ware, Courtney Barnett, Mitski, HAIM, Foals, and many more. Plus Cate Le Bon, Pet Shop Boys, beabadoobee, Dry Cleaning, First Aid Kit, Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, Fontaines D.C., Lorde, Caribou, Metronomy, St. Vincent, Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen, Squid, black midi, Big Thief, IDLES, Crowded House, and much more. More

Sep 10, 2021 By Joey Arnone

British four-piece Glass Animals have shared a new song, “I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance),” via a music video. It is the band’s first new music since the release of their most recent album, Dreamland. More

Jan 21, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Arlo Parks has announced a filmed variety show special that will feature performances by Romy (The xx), Dave Okumu (The Invisible), and Glass Animals. The hour long show, titled Tonight With Arlo Parks, will premiere on Jan. 29 at 12 p.m. PST / 3 p.m. EST, where it will be viewable on both the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and the Amazon Music app (it will also be made available on Feb. 1 via Prime Video). More

Oct 16, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals released a new album, Dreamland, back in August via Republic. Now they have shared a new version of the album’s “Tangerine” that features guest vocals from rising British musician Arlo Parks. More

Aug 07, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals have released a new album, Dreamland, today via Republic. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. More

Jul 31, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small and Jennifer Irving)

Welcome to the 30th Songs of the Week of 2020. This week President Trump suggested that November’s election be pushed back, something he thankfully has no authority to do. Meanwhile on the same day three other living presidents were honoring the late Congressman John Lewis, with President Barack Obama’s moving eulogy offering a stark contrast to the current commander in chief. More

Jul 31, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals are releasing a new album, Dreamland, on August 7 via Republic. Now they have shared another song from it, “It’s All So Incredibly Loud,” via a video that feature frontman Dave Bayley by a swimming pool at night. More

Jul 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Stephen Axeman)

Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2020. Tomorrow is Independence Day here in America, but it’s hard to feel overly patriotic this year with the Trump administration continuing to botch the response to the pandemic and with so much to fix in this country—including systemic racism, police brutality, gun reform, climate change, and wealth inequality, to name just a handful of challenges. More

Jun 30, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals are releasing a new album, Dreamland, on August 7 via Republic. Now they have shared another song from it, “Heat Waves,” via a video partially filmed on phones by neighbors of frontman Dave Bayley during the pandemic lockdown. More

May 01, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the seventeenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. Some states, most notably Georgia, are starting to open up again, even though most experts say it’s too soon. More

May 01, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals have announced a new album, Dreamland, and have shared its first single, title track “Dreamland,” via a video for the new song. The “Dreamland” video was made by frontman Dave Bayley while under quarantine via instructions from director Colin Read. More

Feb 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2020. Since Monday was President’s Day here in America, it should’ve been a less busy week for new tracks, but there was still plenty to choose from and this week we’ve got 12 songs that we consider the week’s best. More

Feb 19, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals have shared a new song “Your Love (Déjà vu).” It is being released via Republic Records in advance of the band’s North American tour dates, which start next week and are mostly sold out. More

Oct 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Glass Candy, one of the many projects led by Chromatics’ Johnny Jewel and a collaboration with vocalist Ida No, have shared a new song, “Naked City.” More

Jul 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals have understandably been forced to cancel their European and American tour dates after their drummer Joe Seaward was hit by a truck while cycling in Dublin. Seaward is currently recovering from a broken leg and fractured skull. More

Mar 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Colors, last October via Capitol. Now he has shared a remix of one of its singles, “Up All Night,” by Los Angeles electronic duo Oliver. A press release says the song has now been “infused with an epic coat of twisted yacht rock smoothness, sure to keep the good vibes rolling.” Beck has also announced some more tour dates, including his first ever headlining show at Madison Square Garden in July (with support from Glass Animals). More

Sep 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

British singer Sampha Sisay (or just Sampha) was previously best known for his vocal and production contributions to the likes of SBTRKT (where many listeners likely first discovered him), Kanye West, Drake, and Solange. But back in February he finally released Process, his debut solo album, via Young Turks. More

Aug 02, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Some bands are bigger than you think they are. Case in point, British four-piece Glass Animals, who we have been covering since their early days, and are headlining shows this fall at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium (where they used to hold the Oscars). More

Jul 27, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

This year’s Mercury Prize nominees have been announced and they include the latest albums by alt-J, The xx, Glass Animals, Sampha, The Big Moon, Kate Tempest, and… Ed Sheeran. The last one seems like bit of a mainstream choice for The Mercury Prize. The full list is below. More

May 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Austin City Limits have announced the lineup of their 2017 festival to go down in the Texas capitol this October. The event is headlined by Gorillaz, The xx, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, Martin Garrix, and Chance the Rapper. More

Mar 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals released their sophomore album, How to Be a Human Being, back in August via Harvest. Now the band has released a video for “Pork Soda” and launched a new interactive website, www.porksoda.co.uk. The video makes fun of TV commercials and the website features an old school TV that you can change the channels of. Check out the video below.

Feb 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals released their sophomore album, How to Be a Human Being, last August via Harvest. The band has now announced some new U.S. tour dates surrounding their Coachella performances. More

Feb 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals released their sophomore album, How to Be a Human Being, last August via Harvest. The band has now stopped by Australia’s Triple J radio station to take part in their “Like A Version” series where bands perform covers. More

Jan 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Bonnaroo have announced their 2017 lineup. The festival goes down in Manchester, Tennessee from June 8-11 and this year, their 16th year, the lineup includes U2 performing The Joshua Tree (which was announced on Monday), More

Nov 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals released their sophomore album, How to Be a Human Being, back in late August via Harvest. Now the band has announced some U.S. tour dates for this November and December. More

Oct 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals released their sophomore album, How to Be a Human Being, back in late August via Harvest. Now the band has released a video for the previously shared single “Season 2, Episode 3.” More

Sep 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our 2016 Protest Issue (out September, October, and into November), which is out now both digitally and on newsstands. We’ve done a Protest Issue every U.S. Presidential election year since 2004 and as before this issue features articles examining the intersection of music and politics and photo shoots with musicians holding protest signs of their own making. Then in mid-October we will be launching our charity Protest Auction, in which we auction off all the protest signs in the issue, with all profits going to the American Cancer Society. More

Aug 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals are releasing their sophomore album, How to Be a Human Being, this Friday (August 26) via Harvest. Previously they had shared the album’s first single, “Life Itself,” as well as a video for the song, and a video for “Youth.” More

Jul 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals are releasing their sophomore album, How to Be a Human Being, on August 26 via Harvest. Previously they had shared the album’s first single, “Life Itself,” as well as a video for the song. More

Jun 07, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals are releasing their sophomore album, How to Be a Human Being, this summer and previously they had shared the album’s first single, “Life Itself.” Now the band have shared a video for “Life Itself.” More

May 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Last week British four-piece Glass Animals shared a mysterious teaser video. Now the band have announced their sophomore album and shared its first single. How to Be a Human Being is the title of the album and it’s due out in the late summer. More

May 10, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals have shared a mysterious teaser video to their YouTube page. The video is simply labeled as “Glass Animals 10:05:16” (which is basically today’s date formatted the British way). More

Oct 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals have shared a new song, “Lose Control,” which is a collaboration with Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$, who is featured on most of the song and co-wrote it with frontman Dave Bayley. It doesn’t sound all that much like a Glass Animals song until Bayley adds his vocals towards the end. More

May 13, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

British four-piece Glass Animals have announced a few more U.S. tour dates for this fall. The band are still supporting 2014’s debut album ZABA and the dates center around their appearances at the Austin City Limits Festival. More

Feb 17, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Releasing their debut LP ZABA last year, UK outfit Glass Animals have premiered a brand new music video featuring their single “Black Mambo.” More

Sep 03, 2014 By Michael Wojtas

Glass Animals have shared a video for their latest single, “Hazey,” which was taken from this summer’s ZABA LP. More

May 21, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Glass Animals’ new video “Pools” is a stop-animation romp through a clay forest. More

Apr 17, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Glass Animals have shared another new track. More

Apr 09, 2014 By Laura Studarus

As a countdown to their debut full-length ZABA, Glass Animals have released a remix EP of lead album track “Gooey.” More

Apr 04, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Gearing towards the release of their debut full-length ZABA, Oxford four-piece Glass Animals recently made a trip Down Under where they took part in Australian radio station Triple J’s “Like A Version” series. More

Mar 28, 2014 By Laura Studarus

On April 8, Glass Animals will release their EP Gooey, a forerunner to their debut full-length ZABA (due out June 9). More

Mar 18, 2014 By Laura Studarus

On June 9 Glass Animals will release their debut full-length ZABA. More

Feb 28, 2014 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar magazine is excited to reveal the full lineups, poster, and set times for our three SXSW 2014 day parties, taking place on Wednesday, March 12, Thursday, March 13, and Friday, March 14. Lineups include Charli XCX, EMA, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Future Islands, Connan Mockasin, We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Mary Onettes, Small Black, Thumpers, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Arthur Beatrice, Gruff Rhys, Woman’s Hour, and many others. More

Feb 27, 2014 By Scott Dransfield

St. Vincent tour-mates and former “Pleased to Meet You” group Glass Animals have released the video for their song “Gooey,” via The Quietus. It’s a strange, dreamlike sequence featuring fluids and various forms of bodily expression. More

Feb 13, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Glass Animals’ new single is called “Gooey.” More

Sep 17, 2013 By Laura Studarus

On November 5, former “Pleased to Meet You” artist Glass Animals will release their second EP. We have the details and a track premiere. More

Aug 03, 2013 By Julia underwood

This weekend, Katowice, Poland is hosting the seventh annual OFF Festival. We sent writer/photographer Laura Studarus down to cover the action. Check out her gallery of photos, featuring Piotr Kurek, Nathalie and the Loners, UL/KR, Glass Animals, Merchandise, Jens Lekman, Julia Holter, and Skalpel. More

Jul 18, 2013 By Christopher Roberts

Last year we did a Pleased to Meet You feature on Oxfordshire, England-based electronic rock band Glass Animals and now the four-piece (David Bayley, Drew Macfarlane, Edmund Irwin Singer, Joe Seaward) have released a new double A-side single “Black Mambo / Exxus” and we’ve got the premiere of the Zodiac remix of “Black Mambo” for you. More

Jun 04, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Following the release of their debut EP Leaflings last year UK newcomers Glass Animals have premiered a music video featuring their brand new track “Black Mambo.” More

Oct 25, 2012 By Christopher Roberts

Here’s a new playlist we’ve made over at Rdio featuring some of the tracks that have been in heavy rotation in the Under the Radar offices of late. Some are artists interviewed in our last two issues, others might be interviewed in future issues, and the rest are just songs we’re really into. More

Nov 21, 2016 By Austin Trunick

The genesis of U.K. quartet Glass Animals’ sophomore album, How to Be a Human Being, is one of the more offbeat origin stories you’ll read. The 11 tracks which comprise the record began as secret field recordings made of the people the band met on tour; snippets of dialogue clandestinely taped, at first, “for kicks” but later found to be a major source of inspiration.

Feb 06, 2015 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar’s 12th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2014. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2014 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More

Aug 26, 2014 By Austin Trunick

Arthur Beatrice, Casual Sex, Connan Mockasin, Future Islands, Glass Animals, Saintseneca, San Fermin, Vaadat Charigim, Woman’s Hour, and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan all discuss playing SXSW for the first ever time this year. More

Nov 04, 2021 By Mark Redfern

British four-piece Glass Animals performed at the Santa Barbara Bowl, in Santa Barbara, CA, on October 27 and our photographer Robert Redfield was on the scene to capture the action. More

Sep 12, 2016 By Lily Moayeri

The residents of West LA had a harder time than usual maneuvering their vehicles home during rush hour on Wednesday August 31st. Glass Animals, who released their second album, How to Be a Human Being, the week before, were participating in a Tumblr IRL event in that neighborhood’s legendary The Village recording studios. More

Aug 22, 2016 By Cody Ray Shafer

Glass Animals proved themselves worthy of all the early-bird hype with ZABA, their psychedelic dance debut from 2014. If you loved that record, How to Be a Human Being is good news. It picks up where ZABA left off with remarkable consistency, nailing the same strides and then some, keeping up with the expectations while completely decimating them. More

Jun 09, 2014 By Austin Trunick

For the last couple of years, Oxford-via-London quartet Glass Animals has wooed listeners with a steady stream of singles and remixes. “Psylla” and “Black Mambo” exhibited a sound somewhere between the dark, enveloping trip-hop of Massive Attack and weirdo groove-makers Alt-J. More

Aug 04, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Walking through the field on the second day of OFF Festival, I was faced with a large group of teenagers, sprinting towards me and singing a chipper refrain from Zbigniew Wodecki’s triumphant performance the previous evening. It was a heartwarming moment. After all, isn’t that the point of heading to a festival in another country? More