@glassanimalsband have been a fan of PAC-MAN and used it in their creative over the years, featuring the game during their live performances of “Tangerine”.
To celebrate Dreamland.irl and the release of PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC, Glass Animals and Xbox collaborated to introduce the new PAC-MAN to fans.
🎮 Check this link for a chance to win an Xbox and the new PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC game 🎮
Be sure to listen to Dreamland (Real Life Edition) too, while you’re at it.
Bad news: Glass Animals have delayed their new album Dreamland until August 7.
Good news: They’ve shared a new single to tide us over, stream Heat Waves now!
For their sophomore release, Glass Animals are pushing the conventions of album-making. It inspired us to do the same for Tumblr IRL.
Each track on How to Be a Human Being beautifully illustrates a fictional character, inspired by real people the band encountered on tour. Glass Animals have captured their personalities on Tumblr, and have enlisted longtime internet friends, Whoopi & Myk to reimagine their lives in many, but not too many, pixels.
For one night, the characters will come to life, backed by the unique sounds of Glass Animals. And with the help of these super creative minds, along with our friends at Ice Breakers mints, Vinyl Me Please and Spotify, Tumblr IRL is transcending new planes. Please join us.
Wednesday, August 31
The Village Studios
1616 Butler Ave
Los Angeles, CA
8pm / Free / All Ages
Entry is limited to capacity, so get there early and stay in line.
If you can’t make it, don’t sweat. You are in for some treats.
Vinyl Me Please have captured the collaboration between Glass Animals and Whoopi & Myk in their limited edition September release, which you can order here.
Spotify Sessions will record this special Tumblr IRL, which will also get its own wax from Vinyl Me Please.
And, as always, you can go here for the music and art.
Tell your friends!
Bringing an album to life at a Tumblr IRL had yet to get THIS literal.
The characters pictured in the Glass Animals’s new album and videos added a whole new dimension, inviting fans to be Human Beings with them. With a background of 8 bit projections from the minds of Whoopi (@whoopthis) & Myk (@myk31), the band (@glassanimalsband) performed their new songs on stage in a world made from their imagination.
Graced with some oldies, and hit hard with new music that could only make them dance, those in attendance at The Village Studios in LA didn’t just get a show. They got to truly experience the album.
Listen to How to be a Human Being here, and check out all the art on Glass Animals’ Tumblr. OR get the damn thing on vinyl and impress your friends.
Big thanks to the band and their brains, to Whoopi & Myk and to Ice Breakers Mints (@icebreakersunicorn) for making this happen, to Vinyl Me Please (@vinylmeplease) for putting Tumblr IRL art on a record (!!!), to Yours Truly (@yourstrulysf) on production and to Spotify Sessions (@spotify) for enshrining it in their vault so we can all enjoy a show with as much energy and passion as you’ll ever see.
We’ll let you know when that’s available.
Photos by Ponneh Ghana (@poonehghana)
It’s out today. wow.
Its called How to be a Human Being and its about people. The idea came from a bunch of recordings I made of conversations. I found that while we were on tour strangers would open up and tell me things they probably wouldnt tell their closest friends. I started recording it all. amazing things, heartbreaking things, weird things, hilarious things. In november i sat down and listened to everything i had back to back. i started obsessing about the way people told stories. what people talk about, what they exaggerate, what they leave out, what the story actually means, and what all of that said about who they were as people. It all made me want to create my own characters and my own stories and hide a little bit of myself in each one. the guys and I talked about the idea and they were all down. each song a different character and a different story.
we started the record as soon as tour finished mid december last year. I went straight from the airport to the studio and locked the door for a week and a half. after ten to fifteen days of superintense work the demos were done. it was incredibly lucky to have a creative burst like that but I think having a strong idea of what the record had to say made it come out incredibly quickly. we then spent a couple months experimenting on those demos. in a few cases we ended up realising that the demo captured a spontaneity and an energy that we couldnt recreate in the studio. So a lot of what you hear on the record are those raw, rushed, spontaneous recordings from that first fortnight. and a lot is the result of us pulling a song apart and tinkering as a band. we’ve put our blood sweat and tears into it. sometimes quite literally. from the artwork to the videos to the live show, to the set design, to the production, and most importantly the words and music.
thank you to our amazing label, family, and friends…and huge thank you to all of you for making this all possible. without your support we never would have had the chance to make another record. its a dream.
Cant wait for you to hear it and I cant wait to play it all live for you.
big love,
dave & dudes
Spotify: http://po.st/AddGlassAnimals
Don’t forget to check out my AW21 playlist on Spotify! Listen to what I groove along to while I’m in the studio - SSD x
Our new album is out today. wow.
Its called How to be a Human Being and its about people.
the record is being made 3D and real life at a party that we will play music at, by tumblr in LA. you can meet the characters, play video games with them, get your fortune told and well… loads more!
How To Be A Human Being… listen along to the album tracks and follow the visuals on the blog.
Life Itself
Youth
Season 2 Episode 3
Pork Soda
Mama’s Gun
Cane Shuga
(Premade Sandwiches)
The Other Side Of Pradise
Take A Slice
Poplar St
Agnes
Glass Animals (@glassanimalsband) have been using their blog to share the visual context of their new release, How to be a Human Being. This album is best enjoyed with Tumblr.
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