Heat Waves become Australia’s song of 2020?
For starters, it’s just a really catchy pop song. The psych-pop group dialled in some elements of hip-hop production on
Dreamland and it’s a fun listen.
The song went viral in the Minecraft YouTuber community (which is at least a hundred-million people deep) and it‘s been all over TikTok in the recent – and kind of ridiculous – trend of sea shanties, which has only helped grow
Heat Waves’ popularity.
Heat Waves and the
Dreamland album it appears on, are actually extremely personal works for Glass Animals – made after a hugely traumatic event.