Glass Animals To Celebrate Albums Two Year Anniversary With Special ‘Dreamland: The Real Life Edition’

On the two year anniversary of critically acclaimed third album Dreamland, record breaking BRIT and GRAMMY Award nominated, Billboard Award winning global sensations Glass Animals announce their special Dreamland: Real Life Edition, for fans who have been on this incredible journey with the British band who took the world by storm this year. Remaining on the Global Weekly Spotify Chart for 75 weeks straight, Dreamland is the album that brought us the global smash hit Heat Waves, leading to a 5 Billion global streaming band with over 38M monthly listeners. Glass Animals returned to the UK for their first Glastonbury in five years last weekend, playing to thousands of fans on the Other Stage, confirming their place as one of the biggest British bands in the world (NME) and honouring the Dreamland they have lived in, ever since its release during the pandemic summer of 2020. Available in all formats with a limited edition glow in the dark vinyl featuring new colourway artwork alongside a deluxe tracklist CD and cassette, the Dreamland: Real Life Edition includes collaborations with Arlo Parks, Denzel Curry, Albert Hammond Jr, Bree Runway and Diplo.

Selling over 262K tickets in the USA last year, Glass Animals played their most iconic venue yet at the beginning of June, with two sold-out nights at Colorado’s Red Rocks, where artists including Led Zeppelin and The Beatles have performed. Also storming the stage at Governors Ball in New York, this is the start of a huge festival season with performances at Lollapalooza, Splendour in the Grass, Lowlands, Reading & Leeds and more. To celebrate Dreamland: Real Life Edition the band will play a special Dreamland.IRL show at Brooklyn’s Mirage.

Glass Animals was formed in Oxford in 2010 by childhood friends Dave Bayley, Joe Seaward, Ed Irwin-Singer and Drew MacFarlane. Now the biggest band in the world, Glass Animals’ rise to global #1 with Heat Waves has been a story of deep connection during unprecedented times, nostalgia and support for a band described as “underdogs”. Dreamland saw Glass Animals “craft a new geography of their own…and our musical landscape is plenty richer for it” (DIY) and allowed fans to escape into a virtual world through building community on OpenSource, the band’s file sharing site. Heat Waves started life with Dave dragging a boom box down his empty East London street in the summer of 2020 during peak lockdown, asking fans to be involved with the video creation by filming from their windows.

Fast forward to 2022 and Heat Waves rise has been a story that “could be the script for a feel good British indie film” (Times). With a historic climb to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, taking 59 weeks and breaking every record, the band remained in the top spot for 5 weeks in a row, #1 on the Billboard Global 200 Chart for 6 weeks in a row, and #1 on the Billboard Radio Songs Chart and Billboard Global Excl. US Chart for 5 weeks. Not to mention, Heat Waves was the longest-leading #1 song on Billboard Hot 100 by a British Group in over 25 years, breaking Spice Girls’ Wannabe record in 1997, and the longest-leading #1 song on Billboard Global 200. The song has also tied for the 6th-longest #1 run by British Groups in Hot 100’s history, alongside The Beatles’ Can’t Buy Me Love & Get Back and Wings’ Silly Love Songs. In Australia, Heat Waves was the winner of the 2020 Triple J Hottest 100, and has broken the ARIA record for most weeks in the ARIA Singles top 10 with 73 weeks, beating out Dance Monkeys record of 41 weeks.

Now one of the UK’s most sought after production and writing talents, Dave Bayley recently teamed up with Florence + The Machine to co-write and co-produce several songs on her new #1 album, Dance Fever, including her lead single My Love and tracks Dream Girl Evil, Prayer Factory, Heaven Is Here, Daffodil, Restraint, and Morning Elvis, with Dave’s production described as “Nick Cave at the Club”. In addition, Glass Animals released a remix of their latest single I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance) with The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr.

Dreamland: Real Life Edition CD & Cassette Tracklisting

1. Dreamland
2. Tangerine
3. ((Home Movie: 1994))
4. Hot Sugar
5. ((Home Movie: BTX))
6. Space Ghost Coast to Coast
7. Tokyo Drifting” (with Denzel Curry)
8. Melon and the Coconut
9. Your Love (Déjà Vu)
10. Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth
11. It’s All So Incredibly Loud
12. ((Home Movie: Rockets))
13. Domestic Bliss
14. Heat Waves
15. ((Home Movie: Shoes On))
16. Helium
17. Heat Waves (Stripped Back)
18. Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Stripped Back)
19. Your Love (Déjà Vu) (Stripped Back)
20. I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance) w. Albert Hammond Jr
21. Tangerine w. Arlo Parks
22. Space Ghost Coast to Coast w. Bree Runway
23. Heat Waves (Shakur Ahmad Remix)
24. Tokyo Drifting w. Denzel Curry (Oliver Malcom Remix)
25. Heat Waves (Diplo Remix)

Dreamland: Real Life Edition Glow In The Dark Vinyl Tracklisting

1. Dreamland
2. Tangerine
3. ((Home Movie: 1994))
4. Hot Sugar
5. ((Home Movie: BTX))
6. Space Ghost Coast to Coast
7. Tokyo Drifting” (with Denzel Curry)
8. Melon and the Coconut
9. Your Love (Déjà Vu)
10. Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth
11. It’s All So Incredibly Loud
12. ((Home Movie: Rockets))
13. Domestic Bliss
14. Heat Waves
15. ((Home Movie: Shoes On))
16. Helium

Glass Animals will return to Australia for the first time which November 2019 and the success of ‘Heat Waves’. The band will be playing headline sideshows in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne as well as festival headline slots at Spin Off in Adelaide and Splendour in The Grass. Tour dates below, for full details visit https://www.untitledgroup.com.au/tours/glass-animals-dreamland-tour.