Brooklyn experimental pop duo waterfromyreyes embrace their eclectic DIY spirit on their latest album, ‘Everyone’s Crushed’ (MatadorRecords). Catch them at Sl33pingVillag3 on 6/22.
Is it bad form to claim Water From Your Eyes for Chicago? The duo of vocalist Rachel Brown and multi-instrumentalist Nate Amos, who released the buzzy albumlast month on Matador, live in New York City—but they met and formed Water From Your Eyes in Chicago in 2016 and issued their first full-length album in ’17 through local indiereminds me of the eclectic spirit of Chicago’s DIY scene with the odd shapes that leap out of its songs like varmints from a Whac-a-Mole machine: the seesawing,...
piano on “Barley.” Amos contributed to that scene as a musician and as an engineer , and in Water From Your Eyes he helps those shapes congeal into euphoric electronic pop. Some passages remain rocky and lumpy, as though not all of their parts have been digested, but Brown’s soothing voice and dry delivery smooth out the hard angles.is brief enough to feel densely compressed, and its music leaps among moods like a pinball.
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