We last met Water From Your Eyes via their remix album Crushed By Everyone in late 2024. Consisting of material wranglings sourced from their breakout release Everyone’s Crushed, it still felt like a cohesive whole, testament to the Nate Amos and Rachel Brown’s capacity to thread their artier leanings into eminently consumable alt pop songs when they have a mind to.
It’s A Beautiful Place Amos has explained comes from somewhere entirely different. “A song can feel like everything, communicating vast emotional landscapes, but your favorite album is less important than any person.”
“That person is less interesting than any dinosaur. That dinosaur is less important than any mountain. That mountain is boring compared to any planet. That planet is only a part of a solar system. That solar system is microscopic next to any galaxy. If music and all other human practices are meaningless on a cosmic scale, why does it still feel so important?”
You may still be stirring your coffee there in contemplation. But without irony Amos and Brown have in their own terms never been closer to the mainstream than with Born 2, punky opener Life Signs or the post-Americana of Blood On The Dollar.
Interspersed are several instrumentals which smartly feel part of the overall aesthetic, whilst the apex Playing Classics gives their indie chassis a four to the floor makeover. It’s A Beautiful Place clears the final hurdle to allow Water From Your Eyes to escape the underground for good.
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