Photo by Adam Powell

Water From Your Eyes wholly understand that we are living in a splintering multiverse and nothing can overcoming succumbing to becoming a mere blip on the timeline. None of it matters! This is not unlike their own music — an attempt to make sense of it all while also acknowledging that what you heard from the Brooklyn experimentalists yesterday has already evolved exponentially and been replaced by a new form. Already, “Life Signs” begins anew with amorphous hardcore punk shape than big ups the aggression of its predecessor, the noisy, pixelated art-pop deconstructions on capitalism of 2023’s absolute standout, Everyone’s Crushed.

It helps that Rachel Brown and Nate Amos are a walking, talking human Duolingo of genre languages, whether they be in popular forms or more avant trajectories, as their respective solo outlets thanks for coming and This Is Lorelei have further proven in fascinating alternative pop swerves. As the first single off their Brooklyn duo’s new album, It’s A Beautiful Place, the business here isn’t paid for by product, but rather as if they’re attempting to absorb today’s modern day attention economy into one ebb and flow that sifts grated riffs, a dopamine hit chorus, and Brown’s mechanical content flow. “Cathedrals are built unbuilt rebuilt, unwavering guilt / Pools of rain heaven spilt, subject to tilt,” they deadpan. “I’m unfulfilled, I’m in a beautiful place / Yeah, it’s so sad in this beautiful place.” Every generation is told they’re living at the best point in time compared to the previous one. Yet, when it becomes impossible to distinguish whether we should feel blissed or pissed by our state of being, Water From Your Eyes raises a very valid question as to whether or not the writing is actually on the wall for us all.

Directed by: Rachel Brown

Water From Your Eyes’ It’s A Beautiful Place will be released August 22nd on Matador Records.