Flowers and vines weave out of the bloodied members of rising UK-based guitar quartet Glass Animals, the latest protégé of Adele, Florence and the Machine and Bloc Party producer, Paul Epworth. This video accompaniment to forthcoming single “Psylla” is the product of a preoccupation with the natural world. “I grew up surrounded by trees, and as a kid books like The Wind in the Willows, and The Jungle Book were all I read,” says front man David Bayley. “We rehearse in the woods outside Oxford, which got those stories spinning around my head again and bled into the music.” Director Rafael Bonilla Jr. utilized his own botanical interest, using real plants, dirt and twigs for the stop-motion animation to create a playful accompaniment to the band’s forthcoming single. “I’ve always had an interest in science, especially biology, and think it’s humbling to realize that for all our grandiose notions, we’re really just meat, bones, water and cells,” says the director, who recently created animated visuals for Maison Martin Margiela’s Spring-Summer show in New York. “We walk around with the idea in our heads that humans are separate from nature, or that the natural world is a pyramid with us at the top, which isn’t true.” The band—made up of Americans Bayley and Drew MacFarlane and Oxford boys Edmund Irwin-Singer and Joe Seaward—embark on a UK and European tour at the beginning of November, before releasing their Epworth-recorded debut album early next year on Wolf Tone.