One of the band's shows caught the attention of acclaimed producer Paul Epworth, who signed them to his label Wolf Tone. While they were still at university, Glass Animals issued their 2012 debut EP, Leaflings, on Kaya Kaya Records. Choosing their name from random words in the dictionary, they became Glass Animals in 2010. As a medical school student at King's College, Bayley's insomnia led him to write songs on his computer that he shared with his friends, and it wasn't long until they started playing them together. It was there that he met his friends and future bandmates Joe Seaward (drums), Drew MacFarlane (guitars/keyboards), and Edmund Irwin-Singer (bass/keyboards). When he was 14, Bayley and his family settled in Oxford, England. The son of a Welsh father and Israeli mother, singer/songwriter/guitarist Bayley spent his childhood in Massachusetts and his adolescence in Texas, immersing himself in American pop culture and the music of Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, and the Neptunes. He took a more personal approach on 2020's abstractly autobiographical Dreamland, mixing the sounds and pop culture from his '90s childhood into futuristic-sounding songs like the chart-topping hit, "Heat Waves." On 2014's ZABA, Dave Bayley's androgynous falsetto and surreal lyrics fit perfectly with the album's hypnotic beats, rippling guitars, and aquatic synths, resulting in slightly alien yet alluring tracks like the certified platinum single "Gooey." Glass Animals expanded their perspective on 2016's Mercury Prize-nominated How to Be a Human Being, a set of artful character sketches that revealed new dimensions to their music as well as Bayley's songwriting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The skilled genre-mashers in Oxford, England's Glass Animals bring synth pop, indie, R&B, and hip-hop together in innovative and inviting ways.
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