Photo by Eve Alpert

Artist: This Is Lorelei, the solo project of Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Buzz: One of the most fascinating observations about the two members of experimental changelings Water From Your Eyes is that when you separate the two halves into their own respect creative outlets, you discover that both Rachel Brown and Nate Amos are highly refined in their prolific pursuits of the perfect pop song. Brown’s abilities to do just that came into focus last year with the latest offering from her bedroom project, Thanks for Coming, on the heels of Water From Your Eyes singular list-topper Everyone’s Crushed, but this year and looking to next, Amos is reserving his space and time to embellish the many sides to his moniker, This Is Lorelei.

Though abundant in its releases throughout the years, it wasn’t until Amos hunkered down into a self-prescribed post-weed smoker’s recovery period one summer where the challenge to write beyond the fog of being high rendered around 70 songs designed in varying tones — be it anxiety-driven Casiotoned indie pop, triumphant loser synth-pop anthems, clean-strummed power-pop, orchestrated self-deprecation and country bumpkin relational odes — that would make many of the 69 Love Songs blush with flattery in their versatile songwriting craftwork. This Is Lorelei’s proper debut album, Box for Buddy, Box for Star, whittles it down to just 10 of them, and there’s nary a flaw to be found within any of these rough gems, as one might suspect. What more is that it, in welcome ways, tempts you to delve even further down Amos’ own rabbit hole, knowing that the bottom of his box runs deep. There is more to discover from the spring of a cracked brain creating through a sobered clarity…

Sound: The nuts, bolts, and every miscellaneous part of indie-osyncratic pop music cobbled and reconstructed into its own emotive cog and wheel system.

Recommended: “I’m All Fucked Up”, “Dancing In the Club”, and “Where’s Your Love Now?” off this year’s debut album, Box for Buddy, Box for Star

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This Is Lorelei’s Box for Buddy, Box for Star is available now on Double Double Whammy.