awards show, as well as their first live U.S. The performance marks the band’s first appearance on a U.S. On Sunday, the band was announced as a performer on this year’s Billboard Music Awards, where they are also selected as finalists for Top Rock Song: “Heat Waves” and Top Rock Album: Dreamland. This week has already been an exciting one for Glass Animals. Basically, having Bree on this track is a dream come true. At the same time, she does it in her own fresh way. This is the voice that can do that timeless R&B thing. When I heard Bree’s voice a couple months ago, I was like.this is it. So, I went for some of those Dre/Eminem-style group chanted stacks. When making the track, I could hear some of that classic 2000’s R&B harmony in the chorus.but I couldn’t quite pull it off. A lot of the sounds take from that era of music. Dre, Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake, N.E.R.D, Busta Rhymes, etc. The enigmatic track is given new life with a feature from the hotly tipped, Hackney-born artist Bree Runway, as Dave and Bree harmonize on the powerful lyrics “Now I go my way and you go yours.” Dave explains, “‘Space Ghost’ was about a period of my life when I started listening to loads of 2000’s R&B and hip hop. “Space Ghost Coast To Coast” was written about lead singer Dave Bayley’s time living in Texas, using a rap homage to bring a youthful friendship gone wrong to life. Hot on the heels of their endearingly trippy video for “Space Ghost Coast To Coast” released last week-watch BELOW-Glass Animals have also been experiencing a huge global rise in support on their single “Heat Waves,” with the original track now surpassing 530 million streams, and the band recently released a version of “Heat Waves” featuring iann dior-listen BELOW. With drum fills that vibrated the ground that we all stood and clipped the audio from my phone recordings, to this grand sound of horns that set the stage for the chorus, “Take a Slice” continued to hype the audience for the last third of their set.Glass Animals share a collaboration with fast-rising UK popstar Bree Runway on their huge track “Space Ghost Coast To Coast,” taken from their acclaimed third album Dreamland released last year-listen BELOW. My personal favorite song performed, although biased because it’s my favorite song of theirs in general, was “Take a Slice”. Surely enough, the quartet walks back on stage to perform “Tokyo Drifting” and the awaited “Heat Waves”, which as of now has amassed just under 1.5 billion streams on Spotify alone. I noticed the people around me look to their friends and say “There’s no way”, bleeding into the overall crowd’s chants for an encore. After an hour long set, the four walked off stage without playing the song even our parents know of. There’s nothing quite like a mass of people at a concert losing their mind over a spectacle like confetti. Along with the closure, millions of colors in the shape of confetti danced through the air like the thousands of people below. With relevant lyrics in the chorus, “Pork Soda” brought out the fans’ props and suddenly pineapples started emerging from the crowd, from a pool float to pineapple shaped paper lanterns, in addition to the real pineapple a stage crew member brought out to sit on stage prior to the show. Set on a stage to mirror an outdoor pool area in a hotel from the 80’s, the band started the show with “Life Itself,” the opening track to their second LP How To Be A Human Being and closing with “Pork Soda” off of the same album. Glass Animals played their set featuring songs from all three of their albums, and the audio mixers made sure you felt the drums and bass in your chest. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if that rang true, as a near fully packed Credit Union 1 Arena was dancing and singing along to almost every lyric while neon colors lit up the scenery and confetti cannons took up real estate above the crowd. Dave Bayley, frontman of UK-based Glass Animals, said on stage that last night’s Chicago stop of the Dreamland tour was the loudest and most energetic so far.
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