‘Playing Classics’ is the second single from Water From Your Eyes’ forthcoming album It’s A Beautiful Place, out August 22 on Matador Records. The track finds duo Nate Amos and Rachel Brown delivering an expansive, cooly composed banger – a 6-minute dance-floor-friendly epic that threads elegantly heat-warped piano lines across pulsing four-on-the-floor rhythms. Watch the James Dayton-directed video below.
“’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.”