Last month, dog eyes announced their new EP blue bird rain cloud. It’s the follow up to last year’s holy friend, a song cycle with a distant and fragile quality that worked like a magnifying glass for life’s tiniest moments. On their new EP, the band maintain their light touch while approaching their arrangements with a newfound sense of adventure. This was immediately evident on the pulsing background synths of the EP’s first single “i remain,” and the duo’s sonic palette expands further on their latest single “nano,” everywhere today.

“nano” is a song about an ancient iPod re-envisioned as a lighthouse. Built around a looped piano, from which Firstman and Leach’s vocal layers expand outward, the track has a hypnotic beauty that recalls Sung Tongs-era Animal Collective, a spacier Florist, or a slightly gentler @.

Firstman says of the track: “Nano was born from Davis sending me some guitar he’d written and I experimented with singing over it. The lyrics were very stream of consciousness and culminated into a sort of dreamlike feeling, zooming in and out quickly from small to big. “Nano iPod, lighthouse in the fog,” is my favorite line, thinking back to childhood holding my beat up pink nano, it felt like I was holding a whole world. That concept in general feels very woven throughout the whole ep. Small feeling big and big feeling small.”

Get the limited edition cassette over on Bandcamp now.