Glass Animals released their debut album ZABA earlier this summer, and have been busy touring in support of the fantastic record. This week the UK band will start the US leg of the tour and to celebrate, the band has shared the video for “Hazey.” The clip features London based dance collective the Solitary Crew, who perform a style of street dancing called “bone breaking.” And once you watch through the video, you’ll see where they get that name. Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley explained further about their style and how it relates to the song’s message, stating:
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.
Watch the video above and take a look at their US tour dates below:
9/06 St. Louis, MO – Loufest at Forest Park
9/07 St. Louis, MO – Loufest at Forest Park
9/08 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall
9/09 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
9/10 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
9/12 Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
9/13 Burlington, VT – Signal Kitchen
9/14 Boston, MA – Paradise
9/15 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
9/17 Washington, DC – Black Cat Backstage
9/18 Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
9/19 Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe
9/20 Columbus, OH – The LC Pavilion
9/21 Cincinnati, OH – Taft Ballroom
9/23 Omaha, NE – Slowdown
9/24 Kansas City, MO – Midland Theater
9/25 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
9/26 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
9/27 Boise, ID – Neurolux
9/29 Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore Cabaret
9/30 Seattle, WA – Neumos
10/01 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
10/03 San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
10/04 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
10/5 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
