Glass Animals implore us to dwell ‘within the second’ on their emotionally-charged music “Creatures in Heaven,” an achingly intimate exploration of presence, perspective, human connection, and the everlasting energy of affection – and the impassioned lead single off the band’s extremely anticipated fourth album, ‘I Love You So F***ing A lot’!
Stream: “Creatures in Heaven” – Glass Animals
Be within the second, right here within the second, free within the second…
Smash a Baccarat elephant on the bottom and it’ll irrevocably break into numerous tiny shards.
You possibly can decide up the items and attempt to match them again collectively, however they’ll by no means be the identical as they have been earlier than. Name it put on and tear, name it erosion, name it weathering, name it injury; the signs present in another way in eachone and eachfactor, however the finish result’s largely the identical: You possibly can’t be unscarred. And whereas crystal collectible figurines are actually delicate, London’s Glass Animals seize a deeper sort of fragility of their music – the type that always goes unseen, however not unheard.
Not all wounds are seen, and in “Creatures in Heaven,” the band’s first bit of latest music in two years’ time, they discover the timeless energy of affection and the influence of a single second in your life: How a deep, intimate, significant connection, nevertheless transient, can eternally change you for higher or worse.
Three within the morning, making love
Laid on the ground of your condo
Fowl’s eye view of the 2 of us
Face in make-up and low-cost pretend blood
What do you consider
when you consider love?
I’m dumbstruck while you’re tender, however
It’s three within the morning, be within the second
Right here within the second, free within the second
“What do you consider when you consider love?” sings Dave Bayley, his voice heat, worn, and weary as he relives sepia-toned recollections from a bittersweet previous. “I’m dumbstruck while you’re tender, however it’s three within the morning, be within the second, right here within the second, free within the second…”
A cinematic analog synthscape steadily grows round him as reckons with the ghosts of previous love, replaying particular moments and reminiscing on issues that might have gone higher – methods he might have achieved higher.
It tears by means of my head, does it hang-out you too?
Diamonds in the dead of night in your previous bed room
You held me like my mom made me only for you
You held me so shut that I brokе in two
It tears by means of my head, does it hang-out you too?
Nеver actually mentioned that I liked you too
Fortunate, fortunate you ’trigger I’m fortune’s idiot
Such small phrases however they hit so large
Bayley’s voice aches with rising veracity because the turmoil inside him spills out in a cathartic, impassioned, and emotionally charged refrain.
It’s a time-tested, hard-won lesson; solely with hindsight can he absolutely respect what (who) he had when he had it (them). “I don’t suppose I understand simply how a lot I miss you typically,” he confesses in a feverish, visceral haze. “We have been younger and so in love; we have been simply creatures in heaven.” One would possibly say he’s on the opposite facet of paradise, singing from a spot of unbridled guilt, remorse, and longing:
I don’t suppose I understand
Simply how a lot I miss you typically
We have been younger and so in love
We have been simply creatures in heaven
I don’t suppose I understand
Simply how a lot I miss you typically
For a second we have been simply
We have been simply creatures in heaven
“It’s a few second in time, be it a break up second or a 12 months or no matter, having the capability to be enormously formative and life-changing,” Bayley tells Atwood Journal. “Even whether it is over. Or if it doesn’t go as deliberate. Or if it dies too quickly. It’s nonetheless f*ing lovely. The love and care and the sensation in that second lives eternally. It by no means actually dies. If that’s the way you select to see it.”
In different phrases, “Creatures in Heaven” is as a lot a philosophy as it’s one heavy coronary heart and fractured soul working by means of fracture and licking naked, lovesick wounds. Be within the second, right here within the second, free within the second. What does it imply to so wholeheartedly (and wholemindedly) exist on this world? Is it aspirational pondering, or a acutely aware, deliberate swap in perspective?
And when Bayley later sings, “It’s merely a second, right here for a second, right here is the second, right here for a second,” is that reductionist pondering, a dose of realism injected into his dreamland, or one thing else totally?
Three within the morning, secure inside
Bury me right here in your laundry pile, at
Three within the morning, be within the second
Right here within the second, free within the second
Three within the morning, over like that
Go slow-motion, minimize it to black
‘Trigger it’s merely a second, right here for a second
Right here is the second, right here for a second
It’s all so extremely loud – the feelings speeding again up with relentless, unforgiving depth, painful and poignant scenes tearing by means of Bayley’s head, emotions hitting like a tidal wave as that heavy interior pressure boils to the floor as soon as extra. Such small phrases however they hit so large.
It tears by means of my head, does it hang-out you too?
Diamonds in the dead of night in your previous bed room
You held me like my mom made me only for you
Held me so shut that I broke in two
It tears by means of my head, does it hang-out you too?
By no means actually mentioned that I liked you too
Fortunate, fortunate you ’trigger I’m fortune’s idiot
Such small phrases however they hit so large
I don’t suppose I understand
Simply how a lot I miss you typically
We have been younger and so in love
We have been simply creatures in heaven
I don’t suppose I understand
Simply how a lot I miss you typically
For a second we have been simply
We have been simply creatures in heaven
Launched April 3, 2024 through Republic Information, “Creatures in Heaven” is the lead single off Glass Animals’ forthcoming fourth studio album, I Love You So F***ing A lot (out July 19th).
The brand new LP follows the unprecedented (and wholly sudden) success of 2020’s Dreamland, which offered over 12 million copies worldwide and spawned the #1 hit single “Warmth Waves,” which broke innumerable information throughout the planet and presently sits at simply shy of three billion streams on Spotify alone.
But all that pleasure and exercise got here within the midst of a once-in-a-generation international pandemic.
Glass Animals’ 4 members – faculty mates and greatest buddies Dave Bayley, Drew MacFarlane (guitar, keys), Edmund Irwin-Singer (bass, keys), and Joe Seaward (drums) – felt a way of detachment, reckoning with their newfound international stardom and a world in lockdown.
“Life can change dramatically, however typically you aren’t capable of change as rapidly on a private degree,” Bayley explains. “You find yourself feeling like a spectator. After which you’re requested and anticipated to be a sure kind of particular person, a distinct particular person. However… I wasn’t positive how. It confused me to the purpose of not understanding who I used to be or if something was actual.”
Bayley describes I Love You So F***ing A lot as a set of ten “intimate love tales” set in opposition to the backdrop of the universe: “The universe could make us really feel overwhelmingly small, however we’ve this human connection that’s far vaster and extra mysterious. Love comes in an infinite variety of varieties and styles and sizes. It’s so advanced, and so highly effective that even witnessing the tiniest occasion of it may change your life eternally,” he explains. In the end, “human connection and the love between us is way larger, extra necessary, and extra advanced than the rest.”
And thus, “Creatures in Heaven” was born.
It’s a heartfelt music paying homage to life’s little, large moments; an ode to being within the second, to being right here within the second, to being free within the second. Aching from the within out, Glass Animals have returned with what could very probably be considered one of their most fragile – and their most romantic – songs.
I don’t see the purpose in a delicate romance
Ten tonne heartache sitting in your again
Frightened of the crack the place the sunshine comes by means of
I’m solely actually me once I’m right here with you
And it will get into your head like a cosmic zoom
Coat on the door like an previous area go well with
So lengthy, cowboy, you’re so cool
Money in hand with a reminiscence of you
I don’t suppose I understand
Simply how a lot I miss you typically
We have been younger and so in love
We have been simply creatures in heaven
I don’t suppose I understand
Simply how a lot I miss you typically
For a second we have been simply
We have been simply creatures in heaven
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