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The idea of Dreamland is to go from my first memory up until now, through all the big realizations that happen in life. Dreamland is an exploration of Bayley's life from his first memories growing up in Texas up to his most recent. The album's lyrics are highly autobiographical in nature, with many publications calling the album a ' memoir'. Music and lyrics ĭreamland was written and produced almost entirely by frontman Dave Bayley. The album was mixed by Bayley, David Wrench, Manny Marroquin and MixedByAli. American hip hop record producer Mike Dean was also present during some of the album's recording. Dreamland was almost entirely produced by Bayley, although he had assistance from the band's longtime mentor Paul Epworth. Most of the album was formulated by Bayley, but his bandmates were responsible for some of the more technical performances on the album and were involved in deciding which songs to put on the album. ĭreamland was recorded in London in 2019, with Seaward participating. Bayley told The Independent that writing 'Agnes' 'opened the door' to Dreamland.

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However, the final track on How to Be a Human Being, 'Agnes', was about a friend who committed suicide. Bayley had mostly refused to write autobiographical songs before, using other real and fictional characters as his inspiration. The songs were inspired by people they met and stories they were told during their travels while promoting their debut album Zaba (2014). The second Glass Animals record, How to Be a Human Being (2016), was a concept album featuring 11 songs with each song representing a person. The positive reception to his more personal songwriting inspired Bayley to do the same in his own music for Glass Animals. While writing for other artists, Bayley learned how other artists wrote about themselves and he began writing lyrics with more personal themes. He was providing songwriting and production contributions to the music of other artists, including 6lack, King Princess, Khalid and DJ Dahi. While Seaward was in recovery, Bayley travelled repeatedly to Los Angeles.

ĭave Bayley (left) and Joe Seaward (right) of Glass Animals

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In September 2018, Seaward posted an update detailing his recovery in having to learn to talk, read, and walk again, and revealed he started playing the drums again. With Seaward's fate unknown at the time, Dave Bayley said it was 'difficult to look forwards' and he found himself looking backwards, thinking back to old memories and 'finding comfort in them even if they were uncomfortable in themselves'. The band cancelled their remaining tour dates for rest of the year as a result. On 2 July 2018, Glass Animals drummer Joe Seaward was hit by a lorry while cycling in Dublin, Ireland and suffered a broken leg and fractured skull, and subsequently underwent brain surgery. A visual album, entitled Dreamland: The Home Movies, was released on VHS shortly after the album's release. Five singles were issued in promotion of the album: 'Tokyo Drifting' (with Denzel Curry), 'Your Love (Déjà Vu)', the eponymously named 'Dreamland', the chart-topping ' Heat Waves', and 'It's All So Incredibly Loud'. Dreamland was influenced by the R&B and hip hop music from the early 2000s, and features an appearance from American rapper Denzel Curry.ĭreamland received mostly favourable reviews from music critics and debuted at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart and number 7 on the US Billboard 200.

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The album has been described as being 'drenched in' nostalgia and is structured around a series of interludes of audio from Bayley's childhood home videos. It derives musical and lyrical inspiration from Bayley's childhood in Texas, particularly from the popular culture and media of 1990s and early 2000s America.

The album was written and produced almost entirely by frontman Dave Bayley and features heavily autobiographical lyrics, a radical difference from the band's previous work. ĭreamland is the band's first album since How to Be a Human Being (2016) and was conceived in the aftermath of their drummer being involved in a near-fatal collision in July 2018. It was released on 7 August 2020, having been pushed back from its initial release date of 10 July 2020. Dreamland is the third studio album by English indie rock band Glass Animals.