Glass Animals

Add Date: June 10

Artist: Glass Animals

Album: ZABA

Label: Harvest

Genre: Electropop, contemplative alternative, R&B

Comments: From Contact Music: "Inspired by Kanye West and Charles Darwin, Nina Simone and the Velvet Underground, ZABA is a rich and textured work, a very special record indeed. With [frontman] Dave [Bayley] producing and [Paul] Epworth as A&R and mentor, the studio became their home and the band were free to record, improvise and write at their own speed, making their sound a bigger, brighter, heavier and more intense experience than ever before.

"The first single, 'Gooey', is wobbly and child-like, a hymn to naivety. 'There's a confidence in the way children act,' Dave says. 'I was trying to push that confidence into the beat.' 'Walla-Walla' goes back to Dave's love of Timbaland and Dr Dre, while 'Intruxx', initially the introduction to the entire record, summarizes this entire new world you're entering."

Recommended Tracks: 3, 4, 2

DNP: 7