I Love You So F***ing Much

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I Love You So F***ing Much
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Studio album by
Released19 July 2024 (2024-07-19)
Length40:41
Label Polydor
Producer Dave Bayley
Glass Animals chronology
Dreamland
(2020)
I Love You So F***ing Much
(2024)
Singles from I Love You So F***ing Much
  1. "Creatures in Heaven"
    Released: 3 April 2024
  2. "A Tear in Space (Airlock)"
    Released: 7 June 2024
  3. "Show Pony"
    Released: 19 July 2024
  4. "Wonderful Nothing"
    Released: 6 September 2024
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Independent 7/10 [1]

I Love You So F***ing Much is the fourth studio album by English indie rock band Glass Animals, released on 19 July 2024 through Polydor Records. [2] It was preceded by the single "Creatures in Heaven", released on 3 April 2024. It is their first studio release since Dreamland , released in 2020. [3] The album has received primarily mixed reviews.

Contents

Background

The album was partly inspired by the success of "Heat Waves" in 2020, [4] with frontman Dave Bayley saying that "sometimes you aren't able to change as quickly on a personal level". He explained that success can leave one feeling like a "spectator" with accompanying expectations to act a certain way, which "confused [him] to the point of not knowing who [he] was or if anything was real". [5] The title is about the power and mystery of human connection in a universe that "may make us feel overwhelmingly small". Bayley also explained that the lead single "Creatures in Heaven" is about "a moment in time [...] having the capacity to be enormously formative and life-changing". [5]

Promotion

The album was promoted with a concert tour entitled “The Tour of Earth”, which started on 4 August 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina and will conclude on 8 March 2025 in Mumbai. Opening acts for the tour include Kevin Abstract, Eyedress, Blondshell, and The Big Moon.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dave Bayley.

I Love You So F***ing Much track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Show Pony"4:15
2."Whatthehellishappening?"3:44
3."Creatures in Heaven"3:41
4."Wonderful Nothing"4:24
5."A Tear in Space (Airlock)"3:23
6."I Can't Make You Fall in Love Again"4:48
7."How I Learned to Love the Bomb"4:09
8."White Roses"3:37
9."On the Run"4:34
10."Lost in the Ocean"4:06
Total length:40:41

Personnel

Glass Animals

Additional musicians

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for I Love You So F***ing Much
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [6] 5
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [7] 24
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [8] 34
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [9] 90
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [10] 20
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [11] 19
Irish Albums (OCC) [12] 44
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA) [13] 44
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [14] 7
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [15] 99
Scottish Albums (OCC) [16] 5
UK Albums (OCC) [17] 5
US Billboard 200 [18] 11
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [19] 3
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [20] 3

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