Water From Your Eyes have taken on recent touring companions Interpol’s track ‘Something Changed’ as part of the latter’s ‘Interpolations’ project, which sees songs from Interpol’s latest album ‘The Other Side Of Make-Believe’ reimagined by different artists. Listen below
Taking the original’s punch-drunk piano shuffle and brooding vocals and subjecting them to an expertly wielded sonic and rhythmic sledgehammer, the interpolation adds vocals from Water From Your Eyes vocalist Rachel Brown. “The idea was to invert the tone of the song, like a photo negative,” says Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos, “reframing change from something foreboding into something encouraging – as well as creating a conversation between Paul and Rachel in order to place the thoughts externally rather than internally.”
The track joins recently released interpolations from Makaya McCraven (‘Big Shot City’), Jeff Parker (‘Passenger’) and Jesu (‘Toni’), with Daniel Avery’s contribution to follow.
Water From Your Eyes recently performed three songs from their critically acclaimed new albumBarley ‘Everyone’s Crushed’ for Bandcamp Live. Joined by additional guitarist Al Nardo, the band shred through album highlights ‘Barley’, ‘Out There’ and ‘True Life’. The performance is followed by a conversation with journalist Shaad D’Souza. Watch HERE.
‘Everyone’s Crushed’ was previewed with singles ‘Barley’ (“A playground chant reimagined by Sonic Youth” – New York Times) ‘True Life’ (“chugging and deformed” – Stereogum) and ‘14’ (“… a symphonic ballad that looks set to be the year’s most elliptical breakup song, with a timeless melody” – The Guardian). Both videos for ‘Barley’ and ‘14’ were directed by the band’s Rachel Brown.
Across the record’s 9 tracks, Rachel Brown (they/them) and Nate Amos (he/him) find silliness and fatalism dancing in a frantic lockstep, using heart palpitating rhythms and absurdist, deadpan lyrics to convey stories of personal and societal unease. Described by Brown as Water From Your Eyes’ most collaborative record ever, it’s a swollen contusion of an album: experimental pop music that’s pretty and violent, raw and indelible.
Read the full album bio by Shaad D’Souza HERE.
“Genuinely original” – (The Guardian **** ‘Album Of The Week’)
“Water From Your Eyes are always thrusting you into the middle of a grand saga you can’t quite grasp” – Pitchfork (8.3 ‘Best New Music’)
“… a disorienting collage of endearing slacker pop, jarring electronica and kaleidoscopic world-building” – DIY
“… the best, most carefully considered collection they’ve made to date” – NME
“honest, smart, refined – and simply excellent” – Loud & Quiet (8/10)
“When Water From Your Eyes find transcendence it can be quite stunning” – Rolling Stone (****)
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