{"id":359249,"date":"2025-08-20T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359249\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:00:12","slug":"water-from-your-eyes-its-a-beautiful-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359249\/","title":{"rendered":"Water From Your Eyes \u2013 It\u2019s A Beautiful Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s A Beautiful Place by Water From Your Eyes<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2025, human existence on Earth is somewhat nonsensical \u2013 one look at the news headlines makes this clear. In their first album since their breakthrough release, Everything\u2019s Crushed (2023), Brooklyn-based duo Water From Your Eyes respond to this state of affairs with cautious but optimistic existentialism, namechecking Ween as influences on their ironic, rather absurdist approach to music-making.<\/p>\n

In lead single \u2018Life Signs\u2019, vocalist Rachel Brown mumbles, subdued, \u201cIt\u2019s so sad in this beautiful place\u201d before reversing their view with \u201cThe world is a paradise\u201d later on in \u2018Born 2\u2019 \u2013 and there are musical contradictions here too. One of these is that Brown\u2019s laconic vocal style is understated compared to the accompanying music from producer and guitarist Nate Amos, whose blend of trippy electronic effects and subterranean guitar create a surreal, otherworldly soundscape.<\/p>\n

The first and last tracks on the album, \u2018One Small Step\u2019 and \u2018For Mankind\u2019, are almost identical, their disorientating electronic chirps and swirls lending an ambient formlessness to the record\u2019s extremities. Other textured soundscapes include \u2018You Don\u2019t Believe In God?\u2019 and \u2018It\u2019s A Beautiful Place\u2019, the former a peaceful interlude full of shifting synths and the latter a distorted solo guitar instrumental, both ethereal in their own ways. Yet another style change comes with \u2018Playing Classics\u2019, released as a single in July, where the album peaks. It\u2019s driven by a pulsating techno beat under an appealing piano jangle and Brown\u2019s deadpan vocals: an alternative dancefloor anthem.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s telling that, since 2022, the duo have been accompanied by guitarist Al Nardo and drummer Bailey Wollowitz when playing live, peaking with a support slot for Interpol at their largest concert to date, in Mexico City last year. You can hear this expansion in the fuller instrumentation of this album compared to their previous LP: the fuller dimensions of tracks such as \u2018Born 2\u2019 and \u2018Blood On The Dollar\u2019 must have been crafted with live performances in mind \u2013 even though we\u2019re told that they were recorded in Amos\u2019s bedroom.<\/p>\n

Water From Your Eyes can\u2019t be confined to a single genre; It\u2019s A Beautiful Place is an amalgamation of directions, culminating in a product that is lyrically existential, sonically experimental and eerily extraterrestrial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s A Beautiful Place by Water From Your Eyes In 2025, human existence on Earth is somewhat nonsensical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-359249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115060750816741900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}