History Music / GlassAnimals

Discography:

* StylisticSuck: Some pages of the band's website resemble Website/{{Geocities}} and Website/{{Myspace}} pages.

* GrowingUpSucks: It appears to be a CentralTheme in ''How To Be A Human Being.'' "Youth" is about being a parent unable to be there and see your child grow up, "Life Itself" is about a stagnant young adult frittering his days away as an unemployed BasementDweller and misfit after having been told he'd grow up to be special, "Pork Soda" is about [[ScatterBrainedSenior an old man getting dementia]], "The Other Side Of Paradise" is about [[TheOneThatGotAway a woman's doomed relationship with a now famous basketball player]], "Take A Slice" is about a young woman prostituting herself to pay for college, and "Agnes" is about losing your friend to time while seeing him fall into drug addiction and poor mental health. [[SarcasmMode Fun stuff.]]

->''"Oh, it's 2020, so it's time to change that''
->''So you go make an album and call it Dreamland"''

* AgeProgressionSong: "Youth" follows the waitress' son as she watches him grow up [[MissingMom without her]].

** The narrator refers to the subject of ''Gooey'' as "[[Literature/WinnieThePooh Pooh Bear]]" to signify their [[ManChild childishness and naivety]].
** ''Black Mambo'' is about "Mr. Mole", as he faces off against "The Sloth" in an intense game of dominoes.
** ''Cocoa Hooves'' is about a elderly man, described as an "old goat". He is unable to escape out of his comfort zone due to an implied heart surgery in the lyrics.

* BreakupSong: "Cane Shuga" is about the businessman having broken up with his girlfriend because of his cocaine abuse. The girl from "Season 2, Episode 3", [[{{Irony}} who he described ruefully in that song as a "broken" and incorrigible stoner.]]

* ConnectedAllAlong: In the music videos and [[AllThereInTheManual "back-matter material."]] The drug dealer from ''Cane Shuga'' is the boyfriend of subject in ''Season 2, Episode 3's'' video, Mrs. Moore from ''Poplar St.'' kidnaps a boy whose mother is the waitress from ''Youth''. ''Life Itself's'' video has most of these characters, including the subject character and his mother, the subject of ''Mama's Gun.''

* ChessWithDeath: The titular "Black Mambo". But [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace with dominoes]].
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: ''It’s All So Incredibly Loud.'' Dave Bayley said it takes place in the three seconds.

* GrowingUpSucks: It appears to be a CentralTheme in ''How To Be A Human Being.'' "Youth" is about being parent not being able to see your child grow up, "Life Itself" is about a stagnant young adult frittering his days away as an unemployed BasementDweller and misfit after having been told he'd grow up to be special, "Pork Soda" is about [[ScatterBrainedSenior an old man getting dementia]], "The Other Side Of Paradise" is about [[TheOneThatGotAway a woman's doomed relationship with a now famous basketball player]], "Take A Slice" is about a young woman prostituting herself to pay for college, and "Agnes" is about losing your friend to time while seeing him fall into drug addiction and poor mental health. [[SarcasmMode Fun stuff.]]
* ItsSnowingCocaine: ''Cane Shuga,'
* IWantSong: ''Youth,'' from a parent's perspective.
->"I want you to be happy
->Free to run, get dizzy on caffeine
->Funny friends that make you laugh
->And maybe you're just a little bit dappy"
* LighterAndSofter: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] On the whole, the soundscape of ''How To Be A Human Being'' isn't anywhere near as dark and moody as that of ''ZABA'' - but lyrically, it's just as apt to dive into dark themes, all the more bluntly.

* RightOnQueue: "[Premade Sandwiches]" describes various people waiting in line for various queues as a part of modern life.

* TheStoner: The girl in "Season 2, Episode 3" is sung to have [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eaten cereal for lunch and a jar of mayo with a spoon while high on weed]].

* UsedToBeASweetKid: The [[AxesAtSchool school shooter]] in ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] ''Dreamland'' is mostly taken inspiration from Dave Bayley's past
* WorldBuilding: The band made moodboards for their albums, putting a [[CrowdedCastShot cast of characters]] in their second album

->"Oh, it's 2020, so it's time to change that
->So you go make an album and call it Dreamland"

* BSODSong: From ''How To Be A Human Being'': the protagonists of both "Cane Shuga" and "The Other Side of Paradise" lament being left by their respective lovers, the former over his drug abuse and the latter resulting in a suicide attempt.

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: All of their albums to date.

** ''Dreamland's'' is heavily influenced of [[Vaporwave]] and Seapunk art as Dave Bayley's head being made in the their art styles.

* DrugsAreBad: For ''How To Be A Human Being'': ''Life Itself,'' ''Season 2, Episode 3'', ''Cane Shuga'' and the [[DownerEnding aforementioned]] ''Agnes''
* ChessWithDeath: The titular ''Black Mambo.'' But [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace with Dominoes]]

* GenderBlenderName: ''"Agnes"'' is the man holding the camera in the ''How To Be Human Being'' album cover according WordOfGod.
* GrowingUpSucks: It appears to be a CentralTheme in ''How To Be A Human Being.'' ''Youth'' is about being parent not being able to see your child grow up, ''Pork Soda'' is about [[ScatterBrainedSenior an old man getting dementia]], ''The Other Side Of Paradise'' is about [[TheOneThatGotAway a woman's doomed relationship with a now famous basketball player]], ''Take A Slice'' is a young woman prostituting herself to pay for Collage and Agnes is losing your friend to time, on top of him being a drug addict. [[SarcasmMode Fun stuff.]]

* LighterAndSofter: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] ''How To Be A Human Being'' is only sonically this, as seen below.
* LyricalDissonance: A recurring theme in ''How To Be A Human Being''
** ''Take A Slice:'' A cheerful indie-pop song a college-aged [[OnlyInFlorida Florida-Bound,]] prostitute.
** ''Cane Shuga'' is about [[DrugsAreBad drugs destroying]] a relationship.
** ''Life Itself'' is oddly chipper for a song about a strange outcast trying to [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer fit in with]] society.
** ''Season 2, Episode 3'' is a smooth bedroom-pop song about an extremely [[TheStoner lazy stoner]]
** ''Dreamland'' 's title track vaguely alludes to a [[AxesAtSchool school shooting]] {{foreshadowing}} ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in ''Season 2, Episode 3.'' The "Cane Suga" guy laments that his girlfriend is "broken, but she's fun".
* MurderBallad: In ''Mama's Gun,'' singer suffering from schizophrenia murders her husband at the behest of auditory hallucinations.
* {{NEET}}: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed in Life Itself]]. Chuck laments taking a small amount of his mother's money.
* OldFlameFizzle: In ''The Other Side of Paradise,'' the narrator's boyfriend leaves for hollywood to become a basketball player who love in love with someone else, [[TheOneThatGotAway much to her chagrin]].
* RightOnQueue: [Premade Sandwiches]
* {{Sampling}}: Mama's Gun samples "Mr. Gruder", originally made by Music/TheCarpenters.

* SpokenWordInMusic: In ''[Premade Sandwiches]'' A [[CreepyMonotone voice]] rapid hire raps about people in New York [[RightOnQueue standing in line for]] superfood, drugs, luxury and sex, not unlike Music/OkComputer.
* StylisticSuck: Some pages of the website resemble Website/{{Geocities}} and Website/{{Myspace}} pages.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: The [[AxesAtSchool school shooter]] in ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''

!![[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife "Baby, don't go. I'll stop making tropes"]]

* TheAlcoholic: ''Hazey'' deals with a man shielding his daughter from his drunken wife.

* AgeProgressionSong: ''Youth'' follows the waitress' son as she watches him grow up [[MissingMom without her]].
* AgeGapRomance: The protagonist in ''Poplar St." thinks he's in this.
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: The ''Cane Shuga'' character is described as a "drug dealer for the elite" and businessmen.
* AnimalMotifs: In the album ''ZABA,'' people are fitting reffered to as animals.
** ''Gooey'' the person the narrator sings about is named [[Literature/WinnieThePooh Pooh Bear]] to signify their [[ManChild childishness and naivety]].

* {{Anthology}}: "HTBAHB" is this [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in audio.]]
* AWildRapperAppears: Joey Bada$$ for the non-album single ''Lose Control.''
** And again in ''Dreamland'' Denzel Curry on ''Tokyo Drifting''

* BasementDweller: Chuck Rogers, the protagonist of ''Life Itself'' still lives with his mom due to not told repeatedly he'll be special.
* BSODSong: From ''How To Be A Human Being:'' ''Cane Shuga,'' and ''The Other Side of Paradise.''
* BreakingSpeech: ''It's All So Incredibly Loud" according to WordOfGod
* BreakupSong: ''Cane Shuga'' is about the businessman having broken up with his girlfriend because of his cocaine abuse. [[{{Irony}} The girl from]] ''Season 2, Episode 3.''
* CharacterBlog: The cast of HTBAHB have ones that [[StylisticSuck resemble like geocites and myspace pages]].
* ConceptAlbum: Both ''ZABA'' and ''How To Be A Human Being''. The former is inspired by the children's book "The Zabajaba Jungle", while the latter consists of songs written about characters the band met and stories they heard in the process of making, promoting and touring to promote ''ZABA''.

* DownerEnding: ''How To Be A Human Being'' ends with ''Agnes'', about a [[GenderBlenderName man]] [[UncertainDoom possibly dying]] of a drug overdose.

* ScatterbrainedSenior: The narrator and his wife in ''Pork Soda'' are suffering from ''Alzheimer's,'' hence the "pineapples are in my head" lyric.

** ''Toes'' is centered around an [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau island full human-animal hybrids]]
*** The song also mentions a "Dr Swango" someone the singer hallucinates. He is named after the real-life [[DeadlyDoctor Dr. Michael Swango]], who killed 4 to 60 people with [[BitterAlmonds arsenic.]]
* TheStoner: The girl in ''Season 2 Episode 3'' is sung to have [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eaten cereal for lunch and a jar of mayo with a spoon while high on weed]]

* TheVamp: [[ReallyGetsAround Mrs. Moore]] in ''Poplar St.'' seduces young men like the protagonist, only to leave him for another lover.

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: the ''Cane Shuga'' character is described as a "drug dealer for the elite" and businessmen.

* ConceptVideo: ''Youth'' ''Life Itself,'' and ''Season 2 Episode 3'' For How to Be a Human Being

* DrugsAreBad: For ''How To Be A Human Being.'': ''Life Itself,'', ''Season 2, Episode 3'', ''Cane Shuga'' and the [[DownerEnding aforementioned]] ''Agnes''
* ChessWithDeath: the titular ''Black Mambo.'' But [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace with Dominoes]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: ''It’s All So Incredibly Loud.'' Dave Bayley said it takes place in the three seconds
* FaceOnTheCover: A 3D model of Dave Bayley's face appears on the cover of ''Dreamland'' and its singles

* LighterAndSofter: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] ''How To Be A Human Being'' is only sonically this, As seen below.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in ''Season 2, Episode 3.'' The "Cane Suga" guy laments that his girlfriend is "Broken, but she's fun"
* MurderBallad: In ''Mama's Gun,'' singer suffering from schizophrenia murders her husband at the behest of auditory hallucinations

* {{Sampling}}: Mama's Gun samples "Mr. Gruder, originally made by Music/TheCarpenters.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: the narrator and his wife in ''Pork Soda'' are suffering from ''Alzheimer's,'' "hence the pineapple are in my head" lyric.

* SpokenWordInMusic: in ''[Premade Sandwiches]'' A [[CreepyMonotone voice]] rapid hire raps about people in New York [[RightOnQueue standing in line for]] superfood, drugs, luxury and sex, not unlike Music/OkComputer.

* WorldBuilding: The band made moodboards for their albums, putting a [[CrowdedCastShot cast of characters]] in their second albulm

** ''Season 2, Episode 3'' is a smooth bedroom-pop song about an [[UpToEleven extremely]] [[TheStoner lazy stoner]]

* StylisticSuck: Some pages of the website resemble Website/Geocities and Website/Myspace pages.

* TheAlcoholic: ''Hazey'' deals with a man shielding his daughter from [[AdultFear his drunken wife]].

* ChessWithDeath: the titular ''Black Mambo.'' But [[RecycledInSpace with Dominoes]]

* {{Anthology}}: "HTBAHB" is this [[RecycledInSpace in audio.]]

!![[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife "Baby, don't go. I'll stop making tropes"]]

They've made three albums to date: ''ZABA'' in June 2014, ''How to Be a Human Being'' in August 2016, and ''Dreamland'' in August 2020. They are most known for the songs ''Black Mambo,'' ''Gooey,'' ''Life Itself,'' ''Pork Soda'', ''Youth,'' ''Your Love (Deja Vu)'', and ''Heatwaves''. They were nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2017 for ''How to Be a Human Being''.

They made two albums, ''ZABA'' in June 2014 and ''How To Be A Human Being'' in August 2016. They are most known for the songs ''Black Mambo,'' ''Gooey,'' ''Life Itself,'' ''Pork Soda'' and ''Youth.'' They were nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2017 for ''How To Be A Human Being''.

* ''How To Be A Human Being'' (2016)

* BSODSong: From ''How To Be A Human Being:''
** ''Cane Shuga''
** ''The Other Side of Paradise.''

* ConceptVideo: ''Youth'' and ''Season 2 Episode 3'' For both the Waitress and her son and The Latter protagonist and her boyfriend, respectively.
* CoverVersion: They covered [[Music/KanyeWest Love Lockdown]] at the end of ''ZABA''.

** ''ZABA'' has artist [[https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/glass-animals-boat-micah-lidberg Micah Lidberg]] draw a man and woman sleeping away from each other, among animals in a strange, jungle-like enviroment, fitting the albums's "setting" and themes.
** ''How To Be A Human Being'' by [[https://www.neilkrug.com/ Neil Krug]] has a [[TheSeventies very 70s-style aesthetic]] and an [[https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/reference-points/glass-animals-on-characters ''awkward family photo'']] of a diverse group of people, each one a subject of the albums songs, respectively.

* DomesticAbuse: ''Domestic Bliss'' is about a mother going through this.
->"I see the bruise, I see the truth
->I see what he been doin' to you"

* GenderBlenderName: ''"Agnes"'' is the man holding the camera in the ''How To Be Human Being'' album cover according [[WordOfGod to the band]].

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The "Cane Suga" laments that his girlfriend is "Broken, but she's fun" in ''Season 2, Episode 3.''
* MurderBallad: ''Mama's Gun,'' The narrator who suffers from schizophrenia, murders her abusive husband at the behest of the voices in her head.
* {{NEET}}: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed with Chuck Rogers]]. He laments taking a small amount of his mother's money.

* PepTalkSong: Youth is a bittersweet example, with the singer telling her son to essentially to live on without her.

* SpokenWordInMusic: in ''[Premade Sandwiches]'' a [[DeadpanSnarker speaker]] rambiles about people in New York standing in line for superfood, drugs, luxury and sex, not unlike Music/OkComputer.

[[https://www.glassanimals.com/ Glass Animals]] are a Indie Pop Band from Oxford, England that formed in 2012. They are made of friends vocalist Dave Bayley, guitarist Drew Macfarlane, bassist Edmund Irvin-Singer and drummer Joe Seaward.

* TheAlcoholic: ''Hazey'' deals with a man [[AdultFear shielding his daughter]] from [[LadyDrunk his drunken wife]].

* AnimalMotifs: In the album ''ZABA,'' people are named as animals to [[MeaningfulName fit their personalities]].

* AWildRapperAppears: They collaborated with Joey Bada$$ for the non-album single ''Lose Control.''
** And again in ''Dreamland'' features Denzel Curry on ''Tokyo Drifting''

->"Burn through my love
->Just like your drugs
->I've had quite enough
->Or lack thereof"
* CharacterBlog: The characters have ones that [[StylisticSuck resemble like geocites and myspace pages]].

* DesignStudentsOrgasm:

* DomesticAbuse: ''Domestic Bliss'' is about one of Dave's Childhood friends' mother going through this.

* DrugsAreBad: A recurring theme ''How To Be A Human Being.''
** In ''Life Itself,'' Chuck Rogers is revealed in the second verse as mixing to codeine and Coca-Cola
** The Girl described in ''Season 2, Episode 3'' is a girl who smoke weed, while this is PlayedForLaughs.
** ''Cane Shuga'' is about a man losing his girlfriend due to his coke addiction. [[{{Hypocrite}} The same girl from the second track]].
** ''Agnes''

* GenderBlenderName: According to WordOfGod the feminine ''"Agnes"'' belongs to the man holding the camera in the ''How To Be Human Being'' album cover.

* ItsSnowingCocaine: ''Cane Shuga,'' where the singer begs his lover not to go, promising to stop using cocaine.
* IWantSong: ''Youth,'' in which about parent who wants a better life for their son.

->And maybe you're just a little bit [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish dappy]]"
* LighterAndSofter: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zigzagged with]] ''How To Be A Human Being''. While sounding more mainstream and pop oriented than their last album, the songs themselves [[LyricDissonance carry the same heavy themes and topics]]
* LyricalDissonance: [[CreatorThumbprint They often do this]]
** ''Take A Slice:'' A cheerful indie-pop song a [[FilleFatale college-aged]] [[OnlyInFlorida Florida-Bound,]] [[TheOldestProfession prostitute.]]
** ''Cane Shuga'' is about [[DrugsAreBad drugs destroying a relationship]].
** ''Life Itself'' is oddly chipper for a song about a nerdy outcast trying to fit in with society.

** ''Dreamland'' vaguely alludes to a [[AxesAtSchool school shooting]].
*** Outright Confirmed by ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The "Businessman" laments that his girlfriend is "Broken, but she's fun" in ''Season 2, Episode 3.''
* MissingMom: The Waitress in ''Youth'' misses out on her son's life due to working all day.

* SpokenWordInMusic: in ''[Premade Sandwiches]'' a [[DeadpanSnarker speaker]] rambiles about people in New York standing in line for superfood, drugs, luxury and sex, not unlike [[Music/OkComputer ''Fitter Happier'']].

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: ''Dreamland'' is [[DownplayedTrope mostly]] about Dave Bayley's past
* WorldBuilding: The band made moodboards for their second album, one for each of their songs' subjects.

** ''Dreamland'' vaguely alludes to a school shooting.

* AlbumIntroTrack: The title track on ''Dreamland'' is a mashup of this and a SettingIntroductionSong: each verse asks a question that is answered elsewhere in the album, and it ends with:

* LyricalDissonance: A few songs.

* GenderBlenderName: [[WordOfGod According to the band,]] the feminine ''"Agnes"'' belongs to the man holding the camera in the ''How To Be Human Being'' album cover.

They made two albums, ''ZABA'' in June 2014 and ''How To Be A Human Being'' in August 2016. They are most known for the songs ''Black Mambo,'' ''Gooey,'' ''Life Itself,'' ''Pork Soda'' and ''Youth.' They were nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2017 for ''How To Be A Human Being''.