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Browse piano sheets by Glass Animals on Zen Virtual Piano. A cycling accident in Dublin left Glass Animals' drummer, Joe Seaward, with a complex skull fracture, and he needed neurosurgery. Seaward has since made a full recovery. Dave Bayley is the quartet's songwriter, singer and producer. A drummer's recovery from a complex skull fracture, and the songwriter, singer and producer of the same quartet, may hint that the band's public story reaches beyond the stage. The psych-pop band was formed in Oxford, with Joe Seaward, Ed Irwin-Singer and Drew McFarlane among the friends who started it. The Independent mentions the brassy horns of the band's 2019 track Tokyo Drifting. The band's trippy single Gooey was a rock radio hit in 2014, Grammy.com notes. A psych-pop band from Oxford and an album shortlisted for the Mercury Prize may suggest that psych-pop can find a place among prize-level albums. Agnes, the song that closed the album How to Be a Human Being, is about a friend of the band who took their own life after struggling with addiction. Bayley wrote each song on that album from someone else's perspective, and the Independent calls Agnes the band's most viscerally emotional track to date and says they rarely perform it at live shows. That album was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize. Closing How to Be a Human Being with a song about a friend of the band may hint at the personal material that Dreamland develops. Dreamland, the band's autobiographical album, is, the Independent says, shot through with memories of early childhood in College Station, Texas, a small city. Bayley's mother had made camcorder tapes when he and his brother were children; Bayley digitized them and worked some of her narration into the album's interludes. Glass Animals earned a Grammy nomination for best new artist even though their debut album came out in 2014. Narration from his mother's old tapes may suggest that the personal side of Dreamland extends beyond its lyrics.

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Who are Glass Animals?

Glass Animals are an Oxford psych-pop band whose songwriter, singer and producer is Dave Bayley; Joe Seaward, Ed Irwin-Singer and Drew McFarlane were among the friends who started it.

What is Agnes?

Agnes is the Glass Animals song that closed How to Be a Human Being, about a friend of the band who died by suicide after struggling with addiction.

What is Dreamland about?

Dreamland is the autobiographical Glass Animals album that, the Independent says, is shot through with memories of early childhood in College Station, Texas.

What was Gooey for Glass Animals?

Gooey was a trippy Glass Animals single that was a rock radio hit in 2014, according to Grammy.com.