Kevin Bronson on September 23rd, 2017

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A full house at the Shrine Auditorium on Thursday night got a wild Glass Animals show and washed it down with “Pork Soda.” The Oxford, U.K., quartet, touring behind their second album “How to Be a Human Being,” dressed the stage in an island vibe, with palm trees and a large disco ball in the shape of a pineapple. And speaking of pineapples, many in the crowd wore pineapple socks and T-shirts, referencing the “pineapples in my head” chorus in “Pork Soda,”  the single with which they closed the show.

Glass Animals opened with “Life Itself,” with the crowd joining in to yell, “But I look fantastic.” With frontman Dave Bayley in constant motion, climbing over things on the set, the quartet bounced between old songs and new, with Bayley pausing five songs in to observe, “Someone is smoking some strong shit out there; I’m getting some secondhand puffs.” During “Gooey,” he sang from the pit, letting the crowd sing back the line “You just wanna know those peanut butter vibes.” The band ended their main set with “Agnes” before returning for a two-song encore — the first a cover of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy.”

Amber Mark and Kacy Hill opened the show.

Setlist: Life Itself, Black Mambo, Hazey, Poplar St, The Other Side of Paradise, Season 2 Episode 3, Toes, Take a Slice, Mama’s Gun, Cane Shuga, Youth, Gooey, Agnes. Encore: Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover), Pork Soda

Photos by Jessica Hanley