Virtue

"Virtue" is track three on Backwater, 3:40, written by Kllo and mixed and mastered by Andrei Eremin, and was the first single, released on July 12, 2017. Kaul told Nylon that it is about not knowing what you've got until it's gone, a part of yourself or someone else, and that it is the present moment of finally coming to that realization. Stereogum's Kim Ilkowski heard it as like a sonic boom, heavy bass beside frantic dance beats and Kaul's cooing, serene vocal, ending in a full electronic breakdown. Spectrum Culture listed it among the club-suitable tracks, with warm synth bass.

The video, directed by Homer & Farley, premiered on Nylon on August 2, 2017: a rave from euphoria to morning comedown, with Kaul and Lam superimposed over the London skyline and strobing neon rectangles that Nylon connects to Mark Leckey's video art, and the track compared to Caribou and Jamie xx. We found no chart entry, covers or reliable live counts, and could not tell which upload ours is.