Glass Animals How To Be A Human Being album cover art for a vinyl LP featuring "Life Itself" and "Youth."
Glass Animals

Glass Animals - How To Be A Human Being [Black Vinyl LP]

SKU: 0602557001877
$27.98

Product Details

  • Artist Collection Glass Animals
  • Genre Collection Pop
  • Genre / Style Indie Pop / Psychedelic Pop / Alternative Pop / Indietronica
  • UPC 0602557001877
  • Record Label Harvest
  • Format LP
  • Disc Quantity 1
  • Vinyl Color Black
  • Vinyl Size 12"
  • Vinyl Weight Standard
  • Additional Info Explicit
  • Release Date 8/26/2016

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Glass Animals shape How To Be A Human Being around characters gathered from life on the road, turning overheard details and imagined backstories into bright, off-center pop songs. The album follows Zaba with a more character-based structure, where each track feels connected to a different person, habit, or memory. This black vinyl record edition presents the album as a single LP for shoppers looking for the core Glass Animals catalog title.

"Life Itself" opens with restless percussion and a chorus built around a character stuck between confidence and dysfunction. "Youth" shifts toward a more tender story of family, distance, and affection, while "Season 2 Episode 3" uses a smaller domestic scene to show withdrawal and distraction. "Pork Soda" turns the phrase "pineapples are in my head" into one of the album's most quoted hooks, and "Agnes" closes the record with a darker account of loss, dependence, and helplessness at the end of the sequence.

The record works because its pop hooks are tied to specific people rather than broad mood pieces. Dave Bayley built the album from voices, details, and personality sketches collected during touring, giving the songs a different shape from the humid psych-pop of Zaba. On this black vinyl LP, the album is presented in its single-disc configuration with the familiar cover art.

  • Format: Vinyl LP
  • Standout tracks: "Life Itself", "Youth", "Season 2 Episode 3", "Pork Soda"
  • Pressing details: Black Vinyl
  • Genre/style: Indie Pop, Psychedelic Pop, Alternative Pop, Indietronica
  • UPC: 602557001877

"Life Itself" and "Youth" give the album two of its clearest entry points, while "Pork Soda" and "Agnes" show the range between playful language and serious subject matter. For Glass Animals fans, this LP remains a key catalog title between Zaba and Dreamland.


* The Spotify track list may not exactly represent the tracks and audio of this LP edition.

Track List:

Side A:

  1. Life Itself
  2. Youth
  3. Season 2 Episode 3
  4. Pork Soda
  5. Mama's Gun

Side B:

  1. Cane Shuga
  2. The Other Side Of Paradise
  3. Take A Slice
  4. Poplar St
  5. Agnes