Glass Animals share "Hazey" video + launch US tour

To coincide with their US tour that starts this week, Glass Animals are back today to share the video for new single "Hazey," taken from their debut album ZABA, released earlier this year.  Its release comes on the heels of a big Summer for the band that has seen ZABA streamed upwards of twenty million times across the world via various streaming partners (and hand-picked by Spotify US for their prestigious Emerge shortlist),  as well as their video for "Gooey" approaching one million views. Their new video for "Hazey" is as impressive as you've come to expect from the band and features the incredible talents of the Solitary Crew, a London based dance collective performing a unique style of street dance called 'bone breaking'.

Commenting on the dancers' technique, Glass Animals' Dave Bayley said: 

"Every day these dancers put themselves through torturous stretches and contortion exercises using ropes and towels to make themselves more flexible and their movements more fluid. They isolate themselves and focus on slowly building their craft, with a long term goal of being able to add another dance-move to their catalogue, and a longer term goal of stitching those moves together into something cool and beautiful. It all requires a huge amount of dedication and discipline. To me, 'Hazey' is about a parental character who has abandoned those values and eventually becomes wracked by regret. That character speaks in the choruses in the falsetto voice. The verses are spoken by that character's child in full voice. This boy has matured quickly to pick up the pieces dropped by his parent. It was his attitude that I thought was summed up by the bone breakers." 

In addition to the impressive streaming numbers, the release of ZABA at the beginning of the Summer has been the catalyst for an incredible few months of relentless live performances for the band across the globe. The record has been fully reimagined live to packed tents and sold-out venues across the USA, UK, Europe and Australia.

Glass Animals' fall US tour that launches later this week includes a number of sold-out shows already in New York, LA and San Francisco.