Melon and the Coconut

“Melon and the Coconut” is a song by the British indie rock band Glass Animals. It is the eighth song on their third studio album, Dreamland, and was released on August 7th, 2020. Melon and the Coconut depicts a Melon and a Coconut breaking up with each other.

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After waking up from a nap, Bayley wrote and recorded this song in about an hour. Attempts were made to add more to it, however Bayley enjoyed the rawness of the song and felt adding more made it lose its charm.

When recording, Bayley accidentally left his security camera on and found himself with nearly two hours of footage of him playing around his studio. “I watched it back the other day,” he says. “I’m sitting there with my feet up playing the guitar and singing into a microphone. Maybe we need to cut that up for a video. I do some weird shit.”

Bayley claims “I really like using food as characters. I think all food has a personality. someone’s favourite food says a lot about them.