Īll five singles were included on the band's debut album, Zaba, which was released on 6 June 2014. They released three more singles: "Pools", "Gooey", and "Hazey", along with a collaboration with Argentine singer-songwriter and producer Tei Shi. In 2014, the band made their first visit to the US, performing at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
The Glass Animals EP also saw the band collaborating with Jean Deaux, a soulful hip-hop teenager from Chicago, on a song titled "Woozy". The digital release of the track "Black Mambo" brought the band their first attention through online reviews. In 2013, the band released Black Mambo / Exxus EP in Europe, and Glass Animals EP in the US. At the time, lead singer and guitarist Dave Bayley was attending medical school at King's College, London but left after Adele's producer Paul Epworth saw Glass Animals performing in London and signed them to his label Wolf Tone. The EP was released on independent label Kaya Kaya Records, a subsidiary and imprint of XL Recordings (part of the Beggars Group of labels). The band released their debut EP, Leaflings, on, which included the single "Cocoa Hooves". Glass Animals earned their first Grammy nomination in the Best New Artist category at the 2022 Grammy Awards. Their song " Heat Waves" reached number one in Australia in February 2021 and was voted number one on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2020. In their live shows they play re-worked, dance-heavy versions of their songs. The third, Dreamland, their first fully autobiographical album (Bayley had said he felt it was selfish to write about oneself), included the single "Tokyo Drifting" which peaked at number seven on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.
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Their second full album, How to Be a Human Being, received generally positive reviews and won in two categories at the 2018 MPG Awards for UK Album of the Year and Self Producing Artist of the Year, as well as a spot on the Mercury Prize shortlist. The first, Zaba (2014), spawned the single " Gooey", which was eventually certified platinum in the United States. Bayley wrote and produced all three Glass Animals albums. Led by singer, songwriter, and producer Dave Bayley, the group also features his childhood friends Joe Seaward, Ed Irwin-Singer and Drew MacFarlane. Glass Animals are a British indie rock band formed in Oxford in 2010.