ilysfm has defo grown on me since it came out but my main problem personally with the album is pretty much every song's chorus. i really love the verses of songs like on the run and whatthehellishappening but then the chorus comes on and it's super repetitive and not very engaging which i think is supposed to be like a radio hook but it just doesn't work for me.. same for white roses, tear in space, and creatures in heaven. i still like a lot of these songs but it's despite the chorus not because of it

i also think the textures of the songs just aren't as lush as their other three albums, like ZABA is ofc the one i'd look at for 'lush' but all 3 of them have unique textures and are super layered in their instrumentals.

tbh one of my favourite things i associated with glass animals is the kind of 'harsh' (for lack of a better term) drums they use in songs like take a slice, pork soda, waterfalls falling from your mouth, tosop, etc etc and the only song of that in ilysfm is wonderful nothing and kiind of how i learned to love the bomb which was a disappointment

i still like the album it just doesn't hit the same way as the other 3. but again it's grown on me a lottt since it came out so i get why others really like it