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ZABA by Glass Animals
ZABA is an album by Glass Animals, released in 2014. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 21 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Gooey”, on 19 lists with a best position of #2.
ZABA, the 2014 debut from Oxford's Glass Animals, came out on Wolf Tone and Caroline International at home and on Harvest in the US, with Paul Epworth producing. Dave Bayley wrote the songs and sang them, and the band around him, Drew MacFarlane on guitar and keys, Edmund Irwin-Singer on bass and keys, Joe Seaward on drums, built them into something humid and strange.
This is jungle-floor indie: sticky, slow-rolling beats, woozy keyboards and Bayley's murmured vocals half-buried in the undergrowth. "Gooey" is the one that spread, eventually certified platinum in America and the song that carried the band's name around the world, while "Pools" rides a looser, more percussive groove. How to Be a Human Being came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from ZABA on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.