Glass Animals - I Love You So F***ing Much

After Heat Waves turned Glass Animals into an unlikely global phenomenon, Dave Bayley looked to the stars for I Love You So F***ing Much, the band's 2024 fourth album, presented here with a booklet.

Where Dreamland was a nostalgic trip through Bayley's own memories, this record zooms out to the cosmic scale, setting small, intimate moments of love and longing against the vastness of space. The result is the Oxford band's most emotionally direct collection yet, still playful and strange, but with its heart worn plainly on its sleeve.

Bayley wrote and produced the album, and his gift for woozy, inventive sound design is everywhere. Show Pony opens with a bright, stuttering pop rush, while Creatures in Heaven glides on shimmering synths and an aching, wistful melody. A Tear in Space (Airlock) builds into something gloriously euphoric, and White Roses leans into the fragile side of the record with a softer, more hushed touch that rewards headphones.

It's a record about the tiny human details that matter even when the universe feels impossibly big, wrapped in the kind of offbeat, colourful production fans have come to expect. Every song seems to find the warmth hiding inside the cold dark of outer space.

A cosmic love letter, swear words and all.