‘HEAT WAVES’ is the brand-new single from Glass Animals. Taken from their fast approaching third album ‘Dreamland’, ‘Heat Waves’ is out now on Polydor Records. ‘Dreamland’ will now be released on the revised date of the 7th August delayed in order to respect and support the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement.
As the British summer arrives, there’s no better time for Glass Animals to drop their new single. Bursting with all the wonderful tricks that we have come to expect from Glass Animals’ enigmatic frontman and producer Dave Bayley, ‘Heat Waves’ is the introspective summer hit within ‘Dreamland.’ A scorching, bass-heavy pop-trip, ‘Heat Waves’ is a distorted Glass Animals love song, exploring how relationships can blur your personality and change you in ways you don’t even realise until you take a step back.
‘Heat Waves’ comes alongside a stunningly cinematic video which has been directed by Colin Read. It finds Dave Bayley meandering the streets of lock-down London as on-lookers watch him slowly make his way to an empty venue.
On making the video, Dave says – “The Heat Waves video is a love letter to live music and the culture and togetherness surrounding it. It was filmed at the peak of the lockdown in my neighbourhood in East London by the lovely people who live around me, just using their phones. These are people who are usually out at shows, in galleries, going to cinemas etc. These venues are left empty now, and many of them will not survive. The song is about loss and longing, and ultimately realizing you are unable to save something…and this video is about that but for art, being together, and human contact. Huge love and thank you’s to everyone who got involved and helped out. When everyone was leaning out of their windows filming, I felt that same sense of togetherness and spine-tingling energy that happened at live shows. It made the coldness of performing to an empty room with the band stuck on screens feel even more heart-breaking.”
