“One of the brightest and coolest acts in America right now” – Paste
“Rachel Brown and Nate Amos make music that’s architecturally bizarre, welded together from sunny tunes and surreal poems, brain-battered rock and suspenseful orchestrals” – Pitchfork on “Barley” (Best New Track)
“Nobody is doing it quite like NYC duo Rachel Brown and Nate Amos” – The FADER
“simultaneously catchy and impossible to pin down, discordant and melodic, eschewing traditional song structures in favor of beautifully controlled chaos” – AV CLUB
“A playground chant reimagined by Sonic Youth” – New York Times on “Barley”
Water From Your Eyes have released a new single and video ‘14,’ the latest preview from their forthcoming album and Matador debut ‘Everyone’s Crushed,’ out May 26th.
A crescendo of swelling strings, pizzicato and electronic drone moving around a cyclical vocal refrain of “How many is 14?,” the band describe the song as “a quasi-serial inkblot signifying submission to personal demons and the realization that change is both necessary and inevitable.” Watch the widescreen black & white video directed by the band’s Rachel Brown HERE.
On the video, Brown says:
“I was largely inspired by “Meshes of the Afternoon”, “Last Year in Marienbad”, and “Spirited Away,” as well as the painting “The Triumph of Baccus” by Diego Velázquez, a favorite of Nate’s. I wanted to capture the feeling of being haunted by one’s own inner turmoils and the act of letting those conflicts go.”
In a recent feature documenting the band’s New York concert residency, FLOOD called ‘Everyone’s Crushed,’ “a surreal album that takes you on long, labyrinthine hikes.”
Pitchfork included ‘Everyone’s Crushed’ among the spring’s most anticipated records and the New York Times recently named Water From Your Eyes a “new artist you need to hear.” Watch the video for first single ‘Barley,’ also directed by the band’s Rachel Brown, below.
Life is horribly dark right now. And yet, it is not unfunny. That’s the sentiment that animates Water From Your Eyes on their new album, and first for Matador, ‘Everyone’s Crushed,’ out May 26. On the follow-up to the Brooklyn duo’s 2021 breakthrough, ‘Structure, ’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.
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