Water From Your Eyes – Playing Classics
Out today, “Playing Classics” is the second single from Water From Your Eyes’ forthcoming album, It’s a Beautiful Place, landing August 22nd via Matador Records.
The track finds duo Nate Amos and Rachel Brown delivering an expansive and coolly composed banger – a 6-minute dance-floor-friendly epic that threads elegantly heat-warped piano lines across pulsing four-on-the-floor rhythms in a video directed by James Dayton.
“Playing Classics started as an attempt to transform an existing guitar piece that I had stalled on into a dance number after Rachel requested that the next album have a disco song on it – the original version was 12 minutes long,” writes Amos. Brown adds, “it was probably my favorite instrumental that Nate sent so it was my favorite to work on lyrically. I love disco and dance music and I had been begging him to make a super dance targeted track. I was focusing on the idea of dancing in a club despite the world falling apart outside. It was written during Brat Summer, so Charli definitely had an influence.”
It’s A Beautiful Place is a gleaming megalopolis: a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness. “It ended up being about time, dinosaurs and space,” says Amos. “We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything’s just a tiny blip.”
The band will support It’s A Beautiful Place with extensive North American and European headline tours. The former launches September 22 in Philadelphia and runs through November 2 in Denver, including stops at Bowery Ballroom in New York, Lodge Room in Los Angeles, and Sleeping Village in Chicago. The latter kicks off on November 13 at Village Underground in London and ends December 7 at Lisbon’s Musicbox.
NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR
Sept 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s ^
Sept 23 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis ^
Sept 24 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room ^
Sept 26 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl ^
Sept 27 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room ^
Sept 28 – St Louis, MO @ Old Rock House ^
Sept 30 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry ^
Oct 1 – Madison WI, @ High Noon Saloon ^
Oct 2 – Chicago IL, @ Sleeping Village ^
Oct 3 – Detroit MI, @ El Club ^
Oct 4 – Toronto, ON @ Project Nowhere ^
Oct 6 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz ^
Oct 7 – Amherst, MA @ The Drake ^
Oct 8 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair ^
Oct 10 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom ^
Oct 21 – Austin TX @ Parish #
Oct 22 – Dallas, TX @ Dada #
Oct 24 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar %
Oct 25 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge %
Oct 26 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah %
Oct 27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room %
Oct 29 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent %
Oct 31 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios %
Nov 1 – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s %
Nov 2 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret %
Nov 4 – Boise, ID @ Neurolux %
Nov 5 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court %
Nov 7 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall %
^ w/ Her New Knife
# w/ Winter
% w/ Dutch Interior
EU HEADLINE TOUR
Nov 13th – London, UK @ Village Underground
Nov 14th – Manchester, UK @ YES
Nov 15th – Glasgow, UK @ The Rum Shack
Nov 16th – Dublin, IE @ The Workman’s Club
Nov 18th – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
Nov 20th – Brussels, BE @ Botanique Rotonde
Nov 21st – Cologne, DE @ 674FM
Nov 23rd – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso (Small Hall)
Nov 24th – Hamburg, DE @ Aalhaus
Nov 25th – Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar
Nov 26th – Berlin, DE @ Lark
Nov 28th – Munich, DE @ Import/Export
Nov 29th – Milan, IT @ Arci Bellezza
Nov 30th – Dudingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
Dec 2nd – Paris, FR @ Boule Noire
Dec 3rd – Lyon, FR @ Le Sonic
Dec 5th – Barcelona, ES @ Sala Upload
Dec 6th – Madrid, ES @ Sala Sol
Dec 7th – Lisbon, PT @ Musicbox
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