Estelle Clifford: Glass Animals - I Love You So F***ing Much

The fourth studio album from human musical group Glass Animals, I Love You So F***ing Much was partly inspired by the success of their song Heatwaves back in 2020. 

Frontman Dave Bayley told Consequence Sound that sometimes success can leave you feeling like a “spectator”, with people expecting you to act a certain way, which "confused [him] to the point of not knowing who [he] was or if anything was real". 

The title refers to the power and mystery of human connection in a universe much larger than the people who reside within. 

Estelle Clifford joined Francesca Rudkin to give her thoughts on the album. 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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a pin of few, use with nothing many too, gets
a beatitude, gets mules to give me solitude and a

(00:33):
good excuse. This is wonderful nothing from Glass Animals that
is off their brand new album I Love you so
ifing much. And I'm sure Estelle, you're wondering what I
was going to say there good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I thought you might do the bleeping or there's there's
some places you can review and just say the word
as it is.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
But you know, yep, well done. Well this is negotiating
that one.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
No, this is when one just looks at the producers.
This is how would you like me to say this?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Living and she says we don't.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Like this, thank you very much, I shall behave yep.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
One layer of not being told off exactly exactly. This
is the yes, yes, sorry, do you?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
I was gonna say you had much of a history
with Glass Animals.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm a bit like a lot of people. Probably it
was that twenty twenty heat Waves and I went, oh, okay,
that's them, and I think the last album dream Streamland.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yes, I'm just familiar with you.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm familiar with them.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, yeah totally.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
And that's probably where I picked up on them as well.
And heat Waves was everywhere. It got them nominated for
so many awards. It got them on the Billboard like
two hundred charts album and they stayed there for weeks,
which was big, like it's the biggest UK single of
a UK band for like thirty years.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Or something, so pretty huge. That's the pressure I think
it does.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
And what it did is it catapulted them into fame
that they hadn't had before. They've been a great UK band.
Lots of people knew them from their back catalog and
they were probably a little bit more alts indie and
a bit more playful, and that one kind of crossed
the line of that sort of more pop kind of sound,
but it was a bit different, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
And it got TikTok.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Everyone was using it behind their videos on TikTok, so
it got this real social media following. And I think
what happened for them then is they weren't able to
celebrate that success because we were all in lockdown.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
They didn't even get to go to the Grammys and
go yay, look at us, which is weird, right, Everyone's
into you and then you don't even get to go
and be in front of them, Like it's so strange.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
This is the first time, Estelle, that someone's mentioned something
like to do like that with COVID, and it's felt
like a long time ago. That's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
I'm moving on.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah totally. And I think then for
a band who did get catapulted to much bigger stardom
during that time.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
What's the aftermath of that?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
And it's actually interesting to me reading the reviews of
this album here, Yes, their fourth album, some fans have
just not been into it, and I think that's because
they're original fans back in the very very Like their
debut album ZEBA, it is quite an interesting listen. So
maybe what this album is for some of us is
a good idea to go back to some of their

(03:06):
back catalog and then find the ones that suit for us,
if you know what I mean. Probably more pop centric
this album than some of their tunes have been before.
An interesting band because there's actually four of them, but
you only ever really hear from or know about lead
singer Dave Bailey, and he does most of the production
himself as well, so it feels like the solo man project,

(03:30):
but there are actually four members in a band. I
think this time he's tried to scope the music based
on his own vulnerability and his own stories, where in
the past they've probably been a little loosely tied to
someone they know or a little bit ambiguous into their meaning.
And again I think fans actually quite liked that. Maybe

(03:51):
that's the difference here where he's trying to show more
of his human scope of emotions.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
He uses a lot of his falsetto voice in the
album two, which I don't know about you, but sometimes
for me that starts getting a little bit too much,
just a little.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I did think whause it sounds really slick.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh absolutely, And I think he is really clever at there,
and he's clever at bringing in like this sort of
urban bass, but then there's this synth pop eighties like
it's kind of a real mosh up of lots of
different genres. But somehow these guys have made it work
for them, and I think because it just sounds a
bit obscure in the pop scene, like it gives it
that little edge, and I think that in pastimes they've

(04:31):
probably been a bit edgier than perhaps this album is.
But yeah, the bit that sort of annoys me about
it is just him staying in the full setto range.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
I get the feeling is stell that you'll go. You're
saying to me, you know, these guys have created some
huge hits. They're very talented. I'm not really sure where
this album is going to fit into the legacy, but
you know, it's up to the d.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Totally. Look.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I think Show Pony and Creatures in Heaven, which you
are going to play some of soon, you've got that
real catchy dream pop thing about them, which will make
that easy radio play Like I made all get picked up,
real catchy, easy to follow, and sometimes don't we just
need that mindless.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
We don't want to your do So what did you
give us?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Be a show Pony and enjoy the music. It's a
seven out of ten. I don't think it's the best,
but there are some enjoyable tunes on it, so soak
them up.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Fantastic, Thank you so much, Estelle, and we'll play a
little bit more Glass Animals when we come back. After
the break. It is eight to twelve.

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