This Is Lorelei is back with a new album (sort of). The New York-based singer-songwriter, a.k.a. Nate Amos, announced today that he’s releasing Holo Boy on Dec. 12 via the esteemed indie label Double Double Whammy. The album is a collection of re-recorded songs from Amos’ early years, originally written …
Read More »Water From Your Eyes Decode Their New Album's Inside Jokes and Far-Out Concepts
When you hit play on Water From Your Eyes’ new album, It’s a Beautiful Place, you’re taking a journey to the farthest reaches of outer space and the tiniest limits of microscopic reality. You’re also listening to a bunch of stunningly original songs made by the New York-based duo of …
Read More »Water From Your Eyes Just Made the Perfect Album for the Surreal Summer of 2025
T hree years ago, in the spring of 2022, Nate Amos and Rachel Brown went on their first tour together as Water From Your Eyes. No one knew their experimental avant-pop music yet, money was scarce, and Amos was in his first year of sobriety. Also, they were exes who …
Read More »Water From Your Eyes Look for 'Life Signs' With Y2K Riffs on New Song
Experimental indie rock duo Water From Your Eyes are back with a new song, “Life Signs,” set to appear on their upcoming album, It’s a Beautiful Place, out Aug. 22 via Matador Records. “Life Signs” finds Rachel Brown and Nate Amos digging into the crunchy riffage of late-Nineties, early-Y2k alt-rock, …
Read More »A Mad Pop Scientist Reveals His Inner Singer-Songwriter
T he first track on This Is Lorelei’s upcoming debut album is a sweet, sad song called “Angel’s Eye.” “So long, my lonely friend/Goodbye, my only love,” a high voice sings over gently rolling strums. It’s a pure, earnest country weeper, full of feeling in every note. If you don’t …
Read More »Water From Your Eyes Strip Down Ween's 'If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All)'
The wonderfully weird indie duo Water From Your Eyes paid tribute to one of their many wonderfully weird predecessors, Ween, with a new cover of “If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All).” The original tune appeared on Ween’s 2003 album, Quebec, a big, winding ballad flush with orchestral …
Read More »Water From Your Eyes Slouch Toward Transcendence on 'Everyone's Crushed'
“When was the first time you heard the word ‘saccharine’?” singer Rachel Brown asks, sounding a bit like a tired Beat poet, on Water From Your Eyes‘ jazzy song, “Remember Not My Name.” Like practically every lyric on the avant-pop duo’s Everyone’s Crushed – at least the ones that don’t …
Read More »Cracking the Riddle of Water From Your Eyes
“Experimental pop” is probably the most succinct descriptor for the music made by Brooklyn duo Water From Your Eyes. But it’s also a little bland, which is why singer/vocalist Rachel Brown follows it with the more expressive “dance punk, question mark?” and “art rock, shrug.” They also admit they do, …
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