Water From Your Eyes have announced a new album: It’s a Beautiful Place is set for release on August 22 via Matador. Today, the New York duo have previewed it with the nu-metal-inflected ‘Life Signs’, which you can check out below, along with the album cover and tracklist.
‘Life Signs’ comes paired with a music video directed by the band’s own Rachel Brown, who commented: “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.”
Water From Your Eyes’ follow-up to 2023’s Everyone’s Crushed is billed as “a reframing of the y2k songbook,” with Nate Amos elaborating, “It ended up being about time, dinosaurs and space. We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything’s just a tiny blip.”
“A song can feel like everything, communicating vast emotional landscapes, but your favorite album is less important than any person,” Amos added. “That person is less interesting than any dinosaur. That dinosaur is less important than any mountain. That mountain is boring compared to any planet. That planet is only a part of a solar system. That solar system is microscopic next to any galaxy. If music and all other human practices are meaningless on a cosmic scale why does it still feel so important?”
Live, Brown and Amos are joined by guitarist Al Nardo and drummer Bailey Wollowitz (of fantasy of a broken heart), and that dynamic helped shape the new record. “When you’re playing with a band you tend to write with one in mind – this was the first time I wrote anything for WFYE imagining us playing anywhere bigger than a basement,” Amos noted.
Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Water From Your Eyes.
It’s a Beautiful Place Cover Artwork:
It’s a Beautiful Place Tracklist:
1. One Small Step
2. Life Signs
3. Nights in Armor
4. Born 2
5. You Don’t Believe in God?
6. Spaceship
7. Playing Classics
8. It’s a Beautiful Place
9. Blood on the Dollar
10. For Mankind
