Watch The Video For Crowded House’s New Single, ‘Playing With Fire’
The track also features on the band’s new album, ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’, due out on June 4.
Crowded House have revealed their new single “Playing With Fire”, the latest release from the band’s forthcoming seventh-studio album, Dreamers Are Waiting, out on June 4 via EMI Music Australia. The song comes accompanied by a music video directed by Simon Mark-Brown, which features a full-band performance set within a dream-like sequence and you can check it out below.
In the “Playing With Fire” clip, Crowded House give a Vegas-style performance in a theater for an audience of one. The band members all rock bright stage attire, and they bring along a choir, a horn section, and a pair of go-go dancers. Eventually, the sole audience member joins the show in a surprising way.
“This song was formed out of a Crowded House jam, live in the studio but then evolved its character through many twists and turns during quarantine in 2020,” shares Neil Finn.
“Playing With Fire” carries within it the contradiction I often feel on joyous occasions, the presence of hope together with an impending sense of doom.”
Since having just completed a hugely successful tour of New Zealand earlier this year, Crowded House has continued to usher in a series of new music, including their recent single “To The Island,” along with two remixed versions of the track – Both the Tame Impala and Unknown Mortal Orchestra remixes are set to appear on an upcoming 7’’ vinyl via the band’s online store.
Dreamers Are Waiting is the long-awaited follow-up to the band’s 2010 album Intriguer.
Finn adds of the album, “We were fortunate to be recording in the studio right before lockdown and so began this album with band tracks recorded live in a room, all brimming with character and energy. We then spent our strangest year, 2020, at distance from each other but connecting daily, swapping files and making those tracks complete. We’re so excited and grateful to be back in one room together now, rehearsing, first to play live in front of audiences in NZ and soon we hope for the rest of the world.”
Dreamers Are Waiting is out on June 4 and can be pre-ordered here.
