GLASS ANIMALS TAKE OUT TOP SPOT IN TRIPLE J’S HOTTEST 100 WITH ‘HEAT WAVES’
UK psych-pop outfit Glass Animals have taken out top spot in Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown with their hit single ‘Heat Waves’. One of the band’s three entries in the countdown, including Tangerine (#18) and Your Love (#51), it also marks the first time the band has reached top 10 in the countdown.
More than 6 months after the tracks release, it continues to hit new peaks across all charts. ‘Heat Waves’ has become the groups highest charting ARIA single, growing to #11 last week, overtaking the bands 2014 hit ‘Gooey’. ‘Heat Waves’ has also hit new chart peaks on Spotify, climbing to #2, and Apple, hitting #1.
Bursting with all the wonderful tricks that we have come to expect from Glass Animals’ frontman and producer Dave Bayley, ‘Heat Waves’ is an introspective summer hit. 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 realise until you take a step back.
The track is taken from ‘Dreamland’, the band’s most successful album to-date which peaked at #6 on the ARIA Albums Charts. Fundamentally a nostalgic memoir of his life so far, ‘Dreamland’ finds Bayley covering expansive and difficult ground. As a result, the album is packed full of intensely sensitive and personal experiences, none more emotional than when the bands drummer Joe Seaward was involved in a bike accident in July 2018 which threatened his life, and that of Glass Animals altogether. Born at a time of immense confusion and uncertainty for the band, it’s an album that arrived at the perfect time in 2020