Photo by Adam Powell

When I get to the club, I wanna hear those “Playing Classics”. According to Rachel Brown, the latest single from Water From Your Eyes’ new album, It’s A Beautiful Place, was written during peak BRAT summer, and it definitely shows in the way they and Nate Amos transfigure their deconstruction of pop into a reconstruction of the dance floor, zooming in and around turbo mode synthesizers and a warped piano line that pulse their way across four-on-the-floor rhythms. Needled together by Amos’ electric thread, euphoria is right there on the verge of collapse if you want it.

Whereas Charli went for full-blown party girl hedonism, however, Brown can be seen as her anti-capitalist counterpart. This party is best enjoyed by letting yourself free-fall into nihilism since we’re living in a post-truth world that’s falling apart anyway. “Look, you’re in debt or well, you’re nothing at all / Tried to make it to hereafter, just wound up at the mall,” they deadpan. “The devil’s playing classics, souls with something to lose / Take that long hard road from here to the truth.” The only way to free yourself is to shake it. For six minutes, at least you get that for living through this modern hellscape.

Directed by: James Dayton

Water From Your Eyes’ It’s A Beautiful Place will be released August 22nd on Matador Records.