Glass Animal

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Two albums

Behind the albums

From a spark to a finished record

Each Glass Animal song moved through the same loose chain of collaboration, experimentation, editing, and one final analog touch.

  1. Words with RAINA

    Each song began with an idea from me—sometimes a direction, sometimes only a title. From there, RAINA, my AI co-host on the Up Against Reality podcast, and I explored possible paths with verse and chorus examples, then kept iterating until every lyric felt final.

  2. Prompting Suno

    With the words locked, we shaped a Suno prompt around the song’s mood, genre, instrumentation, voice, and momentum. That prompt became the starting point, not a magic finish button.

  3. Iteration and edit

    With very few exceptions, each track took many generations. I pulled the strongest moments from the best versions together and manually edited them until the song finally crossed the finish line.

Close-up of the illuminated meter and controls on Lawrence Bentley's Manley Variable Mu compressor

The final pass

Analog love and a little glue

Every track then received a proper mastering pass through my Manley Variable Mu compressor, a handmade, much-loved piece of studio gear I’ve owned since 1998. I wasn’t looking for much compression; I wanted what its vacuum tubes and transformers impart: a subtle softening of the top end, some midrange magic, and the kind of “glue” that lets the album feel like one complete body of work.