Dreamland (Glass Animals album)

Dreamland
A neon-colored digital image of a glasses-wearing man's giant floating head in the middle of a room filled with assorted objects.
Standard physical edition cover. Six limited-edition physical copies and the digital edition were all issued with alternative covers.
Studio album by
Glass Animals
Released7 August 2020
Length45:17
Label
ProducerDave Bayley
Glass Animals chronology
How to Be a Human Being
(2016) 		Dreamland
(2020) 		I Love You So F***ing Much
(2024)
Singles from Dreamland
  1. "Tokyo Drifting"
    Released: 13 November 2019
  2. "Your Love (Déjà Vu)"
    Released: 19 February 2020
  3. "Dreamland"
    Released: 1 May 2020
  4. "Heat Waves"
    Released: 29 June 2020
  5. "It's All So Incredibly Loud"
    Released: 31 July 2020
  6. "Tangerine"
    Released: 20 December 2020
  7. "Space Ghost Coast to Coast"
    Released: 13 May 2021
  8. "I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)"
    Released: 10 September 2021

Dreamland is the third studio album by English indie rock band Glass Animals. It was released on 7 August 2020, having been pushed back from its initial release date of 10 July 2020.[1]

Dreamland 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. 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. 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 has been described as being "drenched in" nostalgia[2] and is structured around a series of interludes of audio from Bayley's childhood home videos. Dreamland was influenced by the R&B and hip hop music from the early 2000s, and features an appearance from American rapper Denzel Curry.

Dreamland 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. 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". A visual album, entitled Dreamland: The Home Movies, was released on VHS shortly after the album's release.

  1. ^ Gallagher, Alex (28 June 2020). "Glass Animals postpone the release of 'Dreamland'". NME. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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