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Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
The British band’s fourth album smooshes interesting influences into pleasant homogeneity that won’t wash in today’s personality-led pop world
Certainly Glass Animals’ fourth album is the work of a big act, as signified by its backstory – an existential crisis brought about by overwhelming success, which played out in a rented house on a cliff in the Los Angeles area – and the fact that, despite the aforementioned death of liner notes, they have commissioned some from bestselling novelist Gabrielle Zevin. In 2024, though, it feels like a problem, dominated as pop is by big, fun personalities – Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx, Chappell Roan et al. Glass Animals’ new music seems destined to be ignored by active listeners and instead to be played by those doing something else or wanting something unchallenging (just look at those asterisks in the album title). Tom Noble – Times Are Changing A perfectly turned summer night soundtrack: just on the cusp of disco and house, with live instrumentation, and a bit of the late Patrick Adams’ productions in its DNA.
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