The creatively produced video sees Dave Bayley wander the silent quarantined streets of London while towing a pile of music gear. Neighbors peer through their windows, filming the singer's slow-moving journey with their iPhones.
Bayley eventually ends up at a concert venue and sings to an empty audience, while his bandmates play on screens of old televisions. The video is made all the more poignant as it closes out on a "sold out" poster of their canceled Dreamland tour.
"These are people who are usually out at shows, in galleries, going to cinemas ... These venues are left empty now, and many of them will not survive. The song is about loss and longing, and ultimately realizing you are unable to save something... and this video is about that but for art, being together, and human contact," Bayley said.
Shooting the video was emotional for Bayley, who likened the experience to a live show with fans filming. "When everyone was leaning out of their windows filming, I felt that same sense of togetherness and spine-tingling energy that happened at live shows. It made the coldness of performing to an empty room with the band stuck on screens feel even more heart-breaking," he said.
"Heat Waves" now sits at more than 227 million plays on Spotify — surpassing their previous hit "Gooey" — and has been on the Billboard charts for 28 weeks.
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