Starting the week with Water From Your Eyes – recorded live at Primavera Sound on June 13, 2026 and broadcast by RNE Radio 3.
Pitchfork’s Philip Sherburne has a nice observation of Water From Your Eyes in a 2025 review of their latest album It’s A Beautiful Place.
Here’s a taste:
Like a lot of people who live deep in their own brains, Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos and Rachel Brown use humor as a smokescreen. “There’s nothing about that song that isn’t funny to me,” Amos once said of “Barley,” a mathematical-philosophical puzzle masquerading as a dance-punk rave-up, and a highlight of their 2023 Matador debut, Everyone’s Crushed. “‘Remember Not My Name’ is the funniest song on the album to me,” Brown said of another Everyone’s Crushed standout, a pathos-soaked slow jam about the vulnerability of infatuation. And here’s that word again: “I was very anti-guitar for a long time, and then I realised that guitar is actually really funny,” Amos recently said of the stylistic turn the band takes on its thrilling new album, It’s a Beautiful Place. “Like, nothing’s funnier than a guitar solo.”
A two-person mind meld fueled by inside jokes and existential awe, Water From Your Eyes are unreliable narrators who can be counted on to perplex, enthrall, and occasionally shred. Their music is antic and turbulent in equal measure, marked by strange time signatures, stylistic pileups, and conflicted emotions hidden behind dazed grins. They are sufficiently schooled in the pop canon to confidently reshape it, balancing easy listening and serialism, industrial dance and microtonal composition, while invoking acts like Cake, Sting, and Red Hot Chili Peppers as reference points for their idiosyncratic, omnivorous brand of art pop—theoretically defensible comparisons, but also patently absurd.
That pretty much nails it for this ethereal duo – I suggest you press Play and have a listen yourself.
