Glass Animals – ZABA (Deluxe) (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Glass Animals – ZABA (Deluxe) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:56 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wolf Tone

“Every song on Glass Animals’ debut is a potential earworm. ZABA’s songs are both atmospheric and totally danceable, ideal for lazy Sunday mornings and hazy Friday nights. Produced by Bayley under executive production of Epworth, the album is bizarre, gorgeous, playful and dark—and it’s absolutely mesmerizing.”
– Paste Magazine

ZABA is the debut studio album by English rock group Glass Animals, released on 9 June 2014 by Wolf Tone Limited.

ZABA is primarily a psychedelic indie pop record.[9] The album’s sound is characterized by obscure tropical percussion and jungle timbres. This musical motif reflects lead singer David Bayley’s exotic subject matter, which was inspired by the William Steig children’s book The Zabajaba Jungle. To achieve this sound, Bayley would record ambient sounds of a field near his house or the chewing of rabbits and other animals, and percussive sounds of cooking utensils and children’s toys. Some of the songs were based specifically on certain adventure novels: “Toes”, for example, intends to recreate the atmosphere of The Island of Doctor Moreau and Heart of Darkness.

The Deluxe Edition features 4 stripped back versions of the album tracks.

On their full-length debut, Glass Animals recall more than a few of their contemporaries: Foals, Alt-J, and especially Wild Beasts spring to mind as touchstones for the band’s lush yet challenging mix of indie and electronic sounds (“Hazey,” meanwhile, suggests a collaboration between Massive Attack and Antony Hegarty). However, Zaba also shows what David Bayley and company bring to this style. Bayley, who produced the album, lavishes these songs with sonic details that are almost hallucinatory: the echoes that grace opening track “Flip” suggest a slow-motion reverie before the song locks into a louder, and arguably more predictable, rock groove, while “Pools” lives up to its name with its aquatic sound. All of Zaba is coated in dripping reverb that gives it a slippery feel that matches the effortless way Glass Animals slide between electric and electronic instrumentation. “Intruxx”‘s looping beat sounds like a trip-hop rhythm translated into live percussion that sounds right at home next to “Wyrd”‘s bubbly electronics. The band is often at its most fascinating when it conveys the chilled-out sophistication of dance music via rock, as on the low-slung groove of “Toes” or the rippling former single “Black Mambo,” which makes the most of the jazzy androgyny of Bayley’s vocals. An equally strange and sexy debut, Zaba’s most audacious moments suggest Glass Animals will be an even more compelling act next time around. – Heather Phares

Tracklist:
1-01. Glass Animals – Flip (03:42)
1-02. Glass Animals – Black Mambo (04:08)
1-03. Glass Animals – Pools (04:48)
1-04. Glass Animals – Gooey (04:49)
1-05. Glass Animals – Walla Walla (03:37)
1-06. Glass Animals – Intruxx (02:49)
1-07. Glass Animals – Hazey (04:25)
1-08. Glass Animals – Toes (04:14)
1-09. Glass Animals – Wyrd (04:05)
1-10. Glass Animals – Cocoa Hooves (04:31)
1-11. Glass Animals – JDNT (04:23)
1-12. Glass Animals – Black Mambo (Stripped) (03:45)
1-13. Glass Animals – Gooey (Stripped) (04:08)
1-14. Glass Animals – Hazey (Stripped) (03:48)
1-15. Glass Animals – Cocoa Hooves (Stripped) (03:35)

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