Glass Animals

The British four-piece band Glass Animals has released their new single, "I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)" via Republic Records. It's the first new music following their colossal 1.6 billion global streaming album Dreamland, that encapsulates the electrifying mood of the year that changed everything for the Oxford band. 

Glass Animals songwriter and producer Dave Bayley said about this single, "Talking is great, don’t get me wrong. But this pandemic has made so many of us look inwards in a way we maybe haven’t before. The uncertainty in the world and the inability to go out and create new memories makes you dig deep into the past. It really fed people’s deepest insecurities and rattled our foundations in so many ways. Relationships changed, friendships altered, and self-confidence was warped. I spent a lot of time talking to my dog, but even more time talking to myself in my head, which was keeping me up all night, and my friends and family were doing the same. It felt like we were all put in a pressure cooker, but there was no way to let out the steam. That’s what this track is about – that pressure cooker exposing and expanding so many cracks but struggling to fill them in and decompress. I want people to switch their devices off, put this song on, close their eyes, and have that release for a moment." 

The video for "I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Want to Dance)" was directed by Drew Kirsch who has worked with the likes of Taylor Swift, Shakira, and John Legend, and is said to capture the power of dance, in a post-lockdown world. 

Last summer, Glass Animals released “Heat Waves”, with a video that was a “love letter to live music and the culture and togetherness surrounding it,” with front man Dave Bayley asking his East London neighbors to help film a video from their windows during lockdown. Fast forward a year, “Heat Waves” has captured the hearts and minds of millions across the world, become a 1 billion streaming global smash hit, and is officially the UK’s biggest global song of the year from a contemporary band, recently re-entering the UK Top 20 and Top 20 on Spotify’s Global Chart. The song also completed a record setting 60-week run to #1 on Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart.

Glass Animals have 2021 U.S. Tour dates, they began September 11th in Houston and run through October 29th at Outside Lands Festival and a big 2022 tour planned beginning March 4th in Phoenix.

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