The British super popular independent rock band Glass Animals will return to mainland China in February 2025, bringing a new tour ‘Human Musical Group Sensations: TOUR OF EARTH’! After setting off a music frenzy in the United States and the United Kingdom, Glass Animals will bring their shocking live show back to Shanghai and present an audio-visual feast full of vitality and emotion for music fans. Step into the music universe full of fantasy colors and personality charm of this band and feel the surging energy of Heat Waves on site! More cities will be announced soon. Stay tuned! The band Glass Animals, which has been nominated for Grammy and Brit Awards and has diamond-level album sales, released the highly anticipated fourth studio album I Love You So F***ing Much this summer and started their global tour. This tour is named ‘Human Music Group Sensations Glass Animals: TOUR OF EARTH’. This tour will witness the band’s first appearance on the most milestone performance venues in their career, including Madison Square Garden in New York and The O2 Arena in London, and is planned to land in Asia in spring 2025. The band was established in Oxford in 2010. Led by lead singer, songwriter and producer Dave Bayley, other members include his childhood friend Joe Seaward (drummer), Edmund Irwin-Singer (bassist and keyboardist) and Drew MacFarlane (guitarist and keyboardist). The new album I Love You So F***ing Much is opened by the singles Creatures in Heaven and A Tear In Space (Airlock). It was born from an existential crisis experienced by Bayley last summer. At that time, the band’s third studio album Dreamland (2020) and the popular single Heat Waves made them a great success globally. Dreamland released during the epidemic period is permeated with the loneliness brought by isolation, making Glass Animals quickly rise to a phenomenal band.
Heat Waves has shattered multiple global records, becoming the first British band song to top the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks since Spice Girls’ Wannabe in 1995. It is also the first song to reach No. 1 since Pharrell Williams’ Happy, composed and produced by a single songwriter and producer, Dave Bayley. Bayley jokingly refers to it as the ‘never-ending song’. This song has not only been nominated for Grammy and Brit Awards but also topped Australia’s triple j Hottest 100 chart, with over 44 billion global plays and becoming the first British band single to top Spotify’s global chart.
Now, this globally acclaimed band has released their most personal album to date, I Love You So F***ing Much. The album presents ten different facets of love, with Bayley handling all songwriting and production. From existentialism to intimate relationships, from witnessing first love in childhood to romance, hatred, and heartbreak, each song showcases a different aspect of love. Dave shares, ‘This album pours out all of me. For me, it’s like my child. The creative process was sometimes painful, as I had to delve into various types of love and the feelings they bring, from happiness to ordinariness, from regret to hatred and loss. All these stories unfold against the vast backdrop of the universe. This album conveys that human emotional connections are grander, more important, and more complex than the universe itself. Nothing else matters.’ Open from February 24th to February 25th, with performance times and duration subject to the venue.
