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Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much review – immaculately polite, Coldplay-lite pop-rock
The Oxford four-piece follow their global hit Heat Waves with a painstakingly inoffensive fourth album that’s all surface
That was the conundrum facing Oxford four-piece Glass Animals in the wake of the extraordinary success of slow-burning viral track Heat Waves, which topped the US charts for five weeks in 2022. That’s not helped by Dave Bayley’s treated vocals being buried deep in the mix and frequently hard to decipher, which is suboptimal if you’re trying to convey your intimate thoughts about coming to terms with superstar-level fame. There are odd moments that cut through – there’s a pleasingly succinct guitar solo on opener Show Pony, and A Tear in Space (Airlock) does a nice line in polite euphoria – but as a whole this is very much a case of all surface, no feeling.
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