Grammy and BRIT Award-nominated, multi-platinum English band Glass Animals release their fourth album today I Love You So F***ing Much via Polydor/Republic Records. With 10 portraits of love in all its forms, I Love You So F***ing Much is the most personal album ever written by author, producer and frontman Dave Bayley. From the existential to the intimate, from the first love that makes us lose our minds as children to romance, hatred and heartbreak: each song is dedicated to a different side of love. From a small tear in an airlock to a vast galaxy, I Love You So F***ing Much It's a record with a retro-futuristic production that travels in and out of the “immateriality of love”.
Following a series of small pop-up dates for fans around the UK (including Hackney's EartH), Glass Animals will kick off their US tour next month, playing to tens of thousands of fans at arenas including Red Rocks and Madison Square Gardens throughout the summer. The 44-date “Tour of Earth” will continue across the UK and Europe later in the year, with Italy on next October 22nd for a show at Alcatraz in Milan.
“I love you so f***ing much, I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH, I love you SO f***ing MUCH, I love you so F***ING much, I LOVE you so f ***ing MUCH. These words take on different meanings every time we say them. The universe may make us feel extremely small, but the human connection is much larger and more mysterious. Love comes in an infinite number of shapes and sizes. It is so complex and powerful that even the smallest witness of it can change a life forever.” – Dave Bailey
I Love You So F***ing Much is the sequel to the acclaimed Dreamland released in 2020, which sold over 12M copies and gave birth to the success of “Heat Waves”the most successful single by an English band in nearly 30 years, now certified Diamond in the United States and the 11th most-streamed song in Spotify history. It was the first single written and produced by a single writer to reach #1 since Pharrell's “Happy,” leading artists such as Florence Welch to want to collaborate with Dave. But the birth of I Love You So F***ing Much comes from an existential crisis.
Dave found himself struggling to make sense of his newfound global resonance, which came as the entire world was in lockdown. “Life can change so dramatically, but sometimes you can’t change so quickly on a personal level. You end up feeling like a spectator. And then you’re asked and expected to be a certain type of person, a different person. But… I wasn’t sure how I could become that. It confused me to the point of not knowing who I was or if anything was real.“It took being stuck on a cliff in a wooden house on stilts during one of the biggest storms in California history for that feeling to become a full-blown existential crisis. In forced isolation, watching trees fall from mountains and thinking that “death was coming”. Dave began to question himself, the universe, and the human experience: especially love. As he came to accept himself as an introvert, Dave realized that “human connection and love are so much bigger, more important and more complex than anything else”.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM