Glass Animals - Hazey

4 September 2014 | 12:30 pm | Staff Writer

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Heading back to Australia soon for the Falls Festival/Southbound run Glass Animals have revealed the video for their track Hazey overnight.

Taken from their debut album ZABA, the clip features London dance collective the Solitary Crew. The band's 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.

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“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.”