Zaba
by Glass Animals
  • Record Label: Harvest
  • Release Date: Jun 10, 2014
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Paste Magazine
    Jun 11, 2014
    90
    Produced by Bayley under executive production of Epworth, the album is bizarre, gorgeous, playful and dark--and it’s absolutely mesmerizing.
  2. The Line of Best Fit
    Jun 9, 2014
    90
    It’s phenomenally exciting to have that sense of danger back in music. It’s subtle, malevolent and utterly charming noise, and if Glass Animals turned out to be buttering you up with a cannibalistic lick of the lips, you’d let them gnaw away.
  3. Clash Music
    Jul 16, 2014
    80
    Zaba is blessed with musical facets that will blind you with their splendour.
  5. Q Magazine
    Jun 13, 2014
    80
    Glass Animals have mapped out a vivid, intoxicating soundworld of their own. [Jul 2014, p.107]
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  6. New Musical Express (NME)
    Jun 9, 2014
    80
    An assured debut.
  7. Filter
    Jun 10, 2014
    76
    ZABA is a notable first offering that is so tasty you’ll want to lick it off your fingers.
  8. Under The Radar
    Jun 9, 2014
    75
    It's sleek, sexy, and irrefutably odd.
  9. AllMusic
    Jul 21, 2014
    70
    An equally strange and sexy debut, Zaba's most audacious moments suggest Glass Animals will be an even more compelling act next time around.
  10. The Quietus
    Jun 20, 2014
    70
    Glass Animals sound like they are on the cusp of everything. There's a gap between their vocabulary and their sound, their choruses and their intros, their obvious intelligence and what they've produced.
  11. Uncut
    Jun 9, 2014
    70
    Moody textures outnumber memorable songs, but this is still a stylish and inviting debut. [Jul 2014, p.73]
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User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 55 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 55
  3. Negative: 2 out of 55
  1. cnally13
    Jun 13, 2014
    8
    Totally worth a million listens. It gets a bit same-y by the end of it but if you just want to listen to the album in halves, that worksTotally worth a million listens. It gets a bit same-y by the end of it but if you just want to listen to the album in halves, that works pretty well. Plus Gooey is the early contender for "Song of Late Spring"… Full Review »
  2. Emungee
    Dec 6, 2015
    10
    Literally my favorite album of this past year of my life. I feel like it has so, so much to it. The depth of everything they say in it. FromLiterally my favorite album of this past year of my life. I feel like it has so, so much to it. The depth of everything they say in it. From beginning with a song of revenge and release, to vibrant and arrogant youth, coming to drunken self-destruction, followed by being wild, and concluding with a song that relates to me in so many ways about being wild and outcasted for it. I think that "Jdnt" is incredible, and an incredible conclusion to the whole album saying: "I breath in and sigh, you can't breath without me," showing that there are two sides of every coin, and that is something we all have to accept. Plus, the trippy nature of the whole album is absolutely mesmerizing. You can really hear the hip-hop background, the crazy synth sounds. All in all, just absolutely incredible! Thank you so much Glass Animals!!!… Full Review »
  3. plushcollector
    Feb 28, 2022
    8
    Their worst album, but still has some amazing songs.
    Best: Hazey and Gooey
    Worst: Intruxx and JDNT
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