Album Review: It's A Beautiful Place by Water from Your Eyes

For this seventh album in just under a decade, the duo continue their upward trajectory, finding new and casually complex ways of expressing their musical minds. Topmost in his track assemblage, Amos has uncovered a raging guitar sound that erupts in Smashing Pumpkins panoramas that are quickly struck with a shrink ray to slot back into a more compact mix. On both first single "Life Signs" and follow-up "Nights in Armor," the cleanly defined yet ever-shifting edges of his musical compositions resemble UK contemporaries Jockstrap, as well as the early edit experiments of the Books.

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While the consistent casting of Water From Your Eyes as prototypical indie pranksters was never entirely inaccurate, it often missed the finer point. The band's sense of humour is far closer to Zappa or Ween than the Dead Milkmen, the absurdism matching the complexity and sincerity of the craft at play, always more dressing than salad. With each release, that ratio has shifted; the bands initial melancholic dance-pop, which pitched them as the stoners' answer to New Order, has gained greater complexities with each album.

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Get to my age and music becomes a mark of time slipping away. Water From Your Eyes took the red eye from my adolescence into adulthood, slipping in with their early career hit Adeleine a gem from high school. Barley was a walk from my dorm to class, and Playing Classics can now soundtrack my trek to work. Checking in every few years has felt like watching a friend grow in and out of phases, and their trajectory has never felt as content and mature as on It's a Beautiful Place.

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'It's A Beautiful Place', the new album from Water From Your Eyes, is a stylish and composed exploration of alternative musical forms. There is a distinctive confidence as Rachel Brown and Nate Amos weave nu-metal backbeat, indie guitar twang, piano motifs and deadpan vocals together. Despite the collage of styles and sci-fi, celestial lyrics, 'Life Signs' remains consistently cool and grungy, reminiscent of their Brooklyn DIY roots.

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In 2025, human existence on Earth is somewhat nonsensical - one look at the news headlines makes this clear. In their first album since their breakthrough release, Everything's Crushed (2023), Brooklyn-based duo Water From Your Eyes respond to this state of affairs with cautious but optimistic existentialism, namechecking Ween as influences on their ironic, rather absurdist approach to music-making. In lead single 'Life Signs', vocalist Rachel Brown mumbles, subdued, "It's so sad in this beautiful place" before reversing their view with "The world is a paradise" later on in 'Born 2' - and there are musical contradictions here too.

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