Human Music sensations Glass Animals today announced their TOUR OF EARTH 2024 world tour. Spanning 41 shows and promoted by Live Nation, the tour, which will see the band perform in some of the biggest venues of their career to date, will kick off on Wednesday, August 7 in Charlotte, NC at the PNC Music Pavilion, with stops in North America, Europe and the UK, and will conclude with an epic performance in London at The O2. The GRAMMY and BRIT Award-nominated, Diamond Award-winning British band has also announced the special guests who will join them on the upcoming tour: Kevin Abstract, Eyedress and Blondshell at select shows in North America, while The Big Moon will join at all shows in Europe and the UK.
During the tour, the band will play a number of iconic venues around the world for the first time, including Madison Square Garden in New York, Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, The Gorge Amphitheatre in Seattle, Kia Forum in Inglewood, 3Arena in Dublin, The O2 in London and many others.
Yesterday, Glass Animals announced details of their long-awaited fourth studio album, "I Love You So F***ing Much," scheduled for release on July 19. The album is announced with a new single, "Creatures in Heaven," which you can listen to HERE and watch the visuals HERE.
"I Love You So F***ing Much" is the follow-up to 2020's critically acclaimed "Dreamland," which sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and featured the track "Heat Waves," a record-breaking song that became the British band's biggest international hit in nearly 30 years. It was the UK group's first song since the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" in 1995, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five consecutive weeks, and the first song created in front of a single songwriter and producer since "Happy" Pharell - which led the world's biggest pop stars, including Florence Welch, to want to collaborate with Glass Animals frontman, songwriter and producer Dave Bayley. But the creation of "I Love You So F***ing Much" was fraught with an existential crisis. Dave struggled to make sense of this newfound global fame, watching it all as the world struggled with lockdown.
He said: "Life can change dramatically, but sometimes you are not able to change as quickly on a personal level. Eventually it leads you to feel like a spectator. And then you are asked and expected to be a certain type of person, someone completely different. But... I wasn't sure how. It confused me to the point where I didn't know who I was or if anything was real." It took being stuck on a cliff in a wooden stilt house during one of the biggest storms in California's history to bring that feeling to a full-blown existential crisis. In enforced isolation, watching trees fall from the mountains and assuming that "death was coming," Dave began to ask questions of himself, the universe and the human experience, namely love. Once he accepted himself as an introvert, Dave realized that "the human connection and love between us is much bigger, more important and more complex than anything else." "Creatures in Heaven" is a sublime first look at ten intimate love stories set against the backdrop of the universe.
