Glass Animals live in Edinburgh (Jessica Bartolini / Live4ever)
Glass Animals have moved the release of their new album Dreamland to August 7th, but have offered up a video for Heat Waves during the prolonged wait.
The promo is, ‘a love letter to live music and the culture and togetherness surrounding it’, according to frontman Dave Bayley, who adds that it was filmed, ‘at the peak of the lockdown’. “These venues are left empty now, and many of them will not survive,” he says.
“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 heartbreaking.”
