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This Oxford indie rock quartet has seen the forest through the trees.
Zaba is a remarkably efficient juggernaut. Where others may bulldoze their way forward with smashing, throbbing, exhausting energy, Glass Animals have taken a refreshingly delicate approach to their production.
The classic array of guitars, bass and drums is perfectly acceptable by itself, with many artists executing it to great effect. Rough, raw simplicity is often a winning strategy; indeed in less skilled hands, Zaba may have come across as weighed down with distracting, extraneous detail. But when Glass Animals interlace this arrangement with a clean, smooth complement of sound, the end product is both solid and nimble.
This is not vapid accessorising. This is not kitsch embroidery. This is indie rock reconstructed from the dirt up and buffed to a shine.
Chattering xylophone and jolly bongos sketch polyrhythms around brisk cells of harmony and surrealistic coos of melody. Distant, exotic animals add their cries to the mix, hypnotised by the wondrous world Glass Animals have summoned for them.
Zaba is a jungle from a children's picture book — bright, colourful and sanitised, but all the more engrossing for it.
Zaba is a remarkably efficient juggernaut. Where others may bulldoze their way forward with smashing, throbbing, exhausting energy, Glass Animals have taken a refreshingly delicate approach to their production.
The classic array of guitars, bass and drums is perfectly acceptable by itself, with many artists executing it to great effect. Rough, raw simplicity is often a winning strategy; indeed in less skilled hands, Zaba may have come across as weighed down with distracting, extraneous detail. But when Glass Animals interlace this arrangement with a clean, smooth complement of sound, the end product is both solid and nimble.
This is not vapid accessorising. This is not kitsch embroidery. This is indie rock reconstructed from the dirt up and buffed to a shine.
Chattering xylophone and jolly bongos sketch polyrhythms around brisk cells of harmony and surrealistic coos of melody. Distant, exotic animals add their cries to the mix, hypnotised by the wondrous world Glass Animals have summoned for them.
Zaba is a jungle from a children's picture book — bright, colourful and sanitised, but all the more engrossing for it.