Hotly tipped, Brooklyn duo Water From Your Eyes are here with their new record, Everyone's Crushed. The Matador Records release is surely going to get a lot of attention this week. Luckily, the spry sounds within will justify that.
"Barley" bubbles and pops with inventiveness, while "Out There" is an expansive and nimble leaper of genre. Nate Amos and Rachel Brown are having a ball here, unmaking indie and the results are very infectious. While the title cut is built around eerie and spacious keyboard-lines, "Open" deconstructs New Wave and lots of what we've come to call post-rock of late.
There's a whole lot of things going on here, and a listener can feel the same joy of discovery as they get when playing things from peers like Dehd and Wet Leg. "True Life" suggests a harsher form of this stuff, though "Remember Not My Name" and "14" are nearly lovely. Rachel Brown's voice suits the sleeker material quite well, and one hears this record and feels the push-and-pull of a duo bent on confronting and up-ending expectations, and a duo more content to reveal their talents and draw a listener in to their hypnotic soundscape.
Everyone's Crushed by Water From Your Eyes is out on Friday via Matador Records.
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