Last week, Water From Your Eyes, the experimental duo of Rachel Brown and This Is Lorelei's Nate Amos, played their third annual New York City boat show, which was a blast. During their set, Water From Your Eyes told the audience that they had some new music coming down the pipeline, which they also teased a few days later with an old-school ShamWow-style infomercial complete with a made-up toll-free number and cover art that looks quite a lot like Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends. Today the news is official: It's A Beautiful Place arrives in August (with different cover art), and lead single "Life Signs" is out now.
The follow-up to 2023's excellent Everyone's Crushed is "about time, dinosaurs, and space," the band explains, adding that they "wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything’s just a tiny blip." "Life Signs" is on Water From Your Eyes' more rock-heavy side, pairing post-punk and nu-metal guitars with Brown's plainspoken, existential verses: "I am coming apart/ I’m becoming together/ True to form."
Brown also directed the music video, where you can see that aforementioned infomercial spliced in along with a bunch of other retro TV tropes: A talk show, a spaghetti western, a teen sitcom, and more. They explain in a press release:
Television has always been my biggest passion, and this video was mostly conceived from my desire to experiment with the tropes of genre. But I also think the medium lends itself to the idea of fitting an infinite amount of universes into a little box you can keep in your living room. I wanted the video to encapsulate as many worlds as the song does and to express an entire lifetime within a short few minutes.
Check out the "Life Signs" video and the It's A Beautiful Place tracklist below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "One Small Step"
02 "Life Signs"
03 "Nights In Armor"
04 "Born 2"
05 "You Don’t Believe In God?"
06 "Spaceship"
07 "Playing Classics"
08 "It’s A Beautiful Place"
09 "Blood On The Dollar"
10 "For Mankind"
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It's A Beautiful Place is out 8/22 via Matador.
