Glass Animals have shared the wavy new single ‘Vampire Bat’ – check it out below.
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The track marks the fifth instalment in their Fresh Fruit series, a constantly evolving project that allows frontman Dave Bayley and the band to experiment with new music and collaborators outside the focus of their core album work.
Previous Fresh Fruit releases have so far included ‘Gold Lime’, ‘Lose Control’ with Joey Bada$$, ‘Tokyo Drifting’ with Denzel Curry and ‘I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)’ with Albert Hammond Jr.
‘Vampire Bat’ sees Bayley and co. teaming up with producer Rob Bisel (SZA) on the genre-blending earworm, which many fans have already noted seems to call back to the hip-hop bounce heard on ‘Dreamland‘.
Many have been left puzzled by the cryptic lyrics – “All in my face, Don Quixote, hee-haw / Spank the monkey, more bananas than Diddy Kong / Shattered like a melon thrown from the Eiffel Tower” – and have spotted references to previous Fresh Fruit tracks littered throughout the song.
In other news about the band, they announced an extension of their ‘Tour Of Earth’ live shows earlier this year, with a batch of extra North American shows to continue this month.
The tour began last August in support of their fourth studio album ‘I Love You So F***ing Much’, which was released in April that year. They originally played strings of shows in the US, the UK and Europe, with support from artists including The Big Moon, Kevin Abstract and Blondshell. Visit here for remaining tickets.
Glass Animals will play:
AUGUST
12 – Troutdale, OR – McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater*#
15 – Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater=
16 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater=
17 – Stateline, NV – Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys*=
^Festival Date
*Non-Live Nation Date
+With SOFIA ISELLA
=With Orla Gartland
#Support TBA
It follows the band sharing a new video for ‘Take A Slice’, which changes with each watch. The track featured on their 2016 album ‘How To Be A Human Being’, and has had a renaissance on social media in recent months – pulling in roughly two million daily views on TikTok back in June.
Last month, Bayley spoke to NME at Mad Cool Festival about the surprise resurgence of the track, and said it felt like “a flashback to the past”, adding: “I love that song, I always thought it was too weird for anyone to get into it, aside from like me and the band, but it’s become this weird thing and now it’s become something we have play in the set every night which is awesome, but also has got an insanely hard guitar solo so the pressure is on.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, he hinted at a collaboration with Florence + The Machine, who Glass Animals worked with in 2022, and who appeared to hinting at their imminent return earlier this week.
While he couldn’t reveal too much at the time, he shared that working with her was “one of the coolest things” he’d ever done. “She’s a force of nature,” Bayley said. “What an amazing songwriter, I’ve learned so much from her – and I can’t say anymore!”
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