Not everyone would trade medicine for music, but Glass Animals aren't your average band.
Songs were little more than a late-night pastime when lead singer Dave Bayley was studying at medical school.
Until one day, with a little Dutch courage, he shared his music and a band was born.
"I think I got a little too drunk one night and showed my three closest friends," he told Newshub.
"They said: 'Put it online', and I said I will - if you join the band. And that was it."
Before long Glass Animals had released their first album and set out on an eye-opening world tour.
With that came the stories and secrets of strangers revealed to the band in their life on the road.
"I have people who've told me that they think they murdered someone but they're not sure," Bayley says.
"People who used to take too many drugs and blacked out and woke up in strange situations - in strip clubs, with guns around. People who've seen other people get shot right next to them.
"Some awful, some hilarious, some heartbreaking."
Those stories were fuel for the band's latest album, each song a character - fickle and flawed.
And the music, like them, is equally fallible.
"There are a lot of first takes on there. There are a lot of mistakes," Bayley says.
"Not all the guitar lines are totally right. Sometimes I hit a dud note and that's okay. I think it adds to the soul of it."
Bayley's buried parts of his soul in there too but the frontman won't say just how deep.
"Some are total autobiography - I'm not going to say which ones cause I like the mystery."
Glass Animals have just played their first New Zealand show at the Laneway Festival in Auckland and already have a view on Kiwi crowds.
"It's been quite feral since we got to the Southern Hemisphere, actually," Bayley says.
"There's something in your water. What is it? I want it!"
Feral, perhaps, but their new record shows these Glass Animals are distinctly human.
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