As Water From Your Eyes, Nate Amos and Rachel Brown have made a career of using an eclectic and ever evolving palette of sounds to explore ideas and concepts through what could be considered dance pop. That is if your frame of reference might be the experimental electronic and punk out of New York and Los Angeles of the last fifteen years. Its 2020 album 33:44 is something you’d expect more out of a band on the Northern Spy label with its beautifully dire, ambient and modern classical soundscapes that are almost an homage to Penderecki’s “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” crossed with Howard Shore’s work for the films of David Cronenberg. But the duo’s most recent album Structure at times sounds like what might have happened if Aphex Twin in writing Selected Ambient Works Volume II had decided to turn those into pop songs. Except that Water From Your Eyes inserts enigmatic spoken word elements that serve as a a meta narrative that re-configures traditional album sequencing and gives the whole album a non-linear quality made cohesive by reimagining the nature of how creative work is structured. In these ways Water From Your Eyes fuses the avant-garde and pop songcraft into a highly accessible form that in the live setting creates an inviting mystique. The group signed to Matador Records in 2023 which released its new album Everyone’s Crushed on May 26 of that year.
Listen to our interview on Bandcamp with Amos and Brown conducted in the back area of Larimer Lounge prior to its show opening for Palm on December 6, 2022 and delve into the new album and the band’s back catalog at the link below. For more information on Water From Your Eyes please visit waterfromyoureyes.com.
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