Water From Your Eyes – the duo of Rachel Brown and Nate Amos – will release a new album called It’s A Beautiful Place on 22 August via Matador.
They’ve shared the lead single from the album, “Life Signs”, which finds them once again stitching together different art-rock approaches with inimitable style and slickness. While Amos’ guitar moves between low-flying UFO hum, sweet jangle-pop and full-on attack mode, Brown insouciantly sings of strolling around the world like some kind of extra terrestrial walking around the city, taking it all in, – the “strife in the city”, the “unwavering guilt” mounting around their numbness. Brown’s falsetto gives everything a sweet innocence, putting an innocent glaze over their pain – “I am coming apart / I’m becoming together / True to form,” they muse. The shapeshifting duo are back with an absolute howitzer, but it barely feels like they’re breaking a sweat, they’re just that good.
The video for “Life Signs” was directed by Brown themselves and features the duo as a cast of TV characters. They explain:
“Television has always been my biggest passion and this video was mostly conceived from my desire to experiment with the tropes of genre. But I also think the medium lends itself to the idea of fitting an infinite amount of universes into a little box you can keep in your living room. I wanted the video to encapsulate as many worlds as the song does and to express an entire lifetime within a short few minutes.”
Watch the video for “Life Signs” below or find the track on streamers.
Water From Your Eyes’ new album A Beautiful Place arrives on 22 August via Matador (pre-order/save). Follow Water From Your Eyes on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR
Sept 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s ^
Sept 23 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis ^
Sept 24 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room ^
Sept 26 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl ^
Sept 27 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room ^
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Nov 13th – London, UK @ Village Underground
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Nov 16th – Dublin, IE @ The Workman’s Club
Nov 18th – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
Nov 20th – Brussels, BE @ Botanique Rotonde
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