Photo by Eleanor Petry

As one half of the phenomenally singular experimental art pop duo Water From Your Eyes, Rachel Brown operates without boundaries. Their solo outlet thanks for coming can in turn be interpreted as an exercise where some guardrails begin to appear, yet Brown still has an uncanny ability to transform indie pop into sounds asymmetrical even when being stuck in a constant “Loop”. The first preview from What is My Capacity to Love?, the Brooklyn songwriter’s forthcoming extended play under the Thanks for Coming banner, peers toward the self and ponders by which habitual actions one becomes part of their own unfulfillment in relationships where expecting the end results to be different when it’s them who needs to step outside the chain. “I’m stuck on the color blue / But you’re always changing hue,” Brown sings with a resignation with their self over an arpeggio of guitars, pianos, bass and drums that, while circular, feels nerved. Even if seeing the obvious is believing, Brown’s stubborn reaction is to wait and see if blue turns to gold when the pattern is always rotating right back to the exact same place.

thanks for coming’s What is My Capacity to Love? will be released September 29th on Danger Collective Records.