Zaba is Oxfordshire quartet Glass Animals' debut album.
As one of the first signings to Paul Epworth’s Wolf Tone label, Glass Animals have polished their pulsing indie electronica-by-way-of-RnB under the production of the band’s vocalist and writer Dave Bayley, and Epworth’s guiding hand.
Glass Animals are a band with a very natural sense of mystery. Singer and song-writer Dave Bayley never had any intention whatsoever of forming a group, but around three years ago at medical school, insomnia gave him some precious spare hours. And what better use of spare hours is there than listening to music and messing around with Garage Band on a half-dead relic of a laptop you were gifted by your Dad?
The single ‘Pools’ is arguably the most instant Glass Animals track to date, and a song swathed in all the unique elements that make this band such a potent, and intriguingly fresh young group.
Following packed audiences at this year’s SXSW festival in March, and a series of sell-out shows across Australia, Glass Animals’ genre-defying, richly textured music is spreading across the globe quickly, and far beyond the confines of their hometown of Oxford.