Feature Photo: Sam Prickett, CC BY-SA 4.0
When Dave Bayley first started making music in his bedroom in Oxford, England, it was more of a personal experiment than the early steps of a global phenomenon. Bayley, born in Massachusetts and raised in Texas before relocating to the UK, originally studied neuroscience at King’s College London. It was there that music began to take over, pulling him into a creative world he hadn’t expected. Alongside childhood friends Joe Seaward, Drew MacFarlane, and Edmund Irwin-Singer, he formed Glass Animals in 2010, giving birth to a band that would eventually redefine the boundaries of indie rock and experimental pop.