Crowded House preview new album with third single "Playing With Fire"

13 May 2021, 12:27 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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Crowded House are back with new single "Playing With Fire", which is the third track to be lifted from their first album in 11 years Dreamers Are Waiting.

"Playing With Fire" follows previous releases "To The Island" and "Whatever You Want", and is teamed with a Simon Mark Brown-directed video.

Neil Finn says of the track, "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. "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."

Dreamers Are Waiting will follow 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."

"Playing With Fire" is out now. Crowded House's Dreamers Are Waiting album will arrive via EMI Records on 4 June, and is available to pre-order now.