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WATER FROM YOUR EYES PLAYING CLASSICS
Today is a good day because we've stumbled across the frankly exceptional second single from Water From Your Eyes' forthcoming album It’s a Beautiful Place. Inspired in-part by the cultural behemoth of Brat Summer, 'Playing Classics' is a near 6-minute disco track from a band known mostly for experimental post-punk. Punctuated by what can only be described as bendy piano sounds, up-tempo beats and squashy synth bass form an irresistibly dancey backbone to support the track's more whimsical elements. Amos explains: “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." 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’s a Beautiful Place will arrive on the 22nd of August via Matador and 'Playing Classics' is nothing short of an almighty triumph. -Holly Mullineaux
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