Water From Your Eyes Announce New LP, It’s a Beautiful Place

After releasing their critically-acclaimed LP Everyone’s Crushed, which was one of our best albums of 2023 and marked their first release under Matador, Water From Your Eyes returns with a new album: It’s a Beautiful Place, out on August 22. The record is described as “a satellite view of eras and musical forms” and “a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness.” “[It’s a Beautiful Place] ended up being about time, dinosaurs and space,” explains instrumentalist Nate Amos. “We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything’s just a tiny blip.”

Accompanying the announcement of the band’s forthcoming LP, Water From Your Eyes also shared its lead single, “Life Signs,” which was performed live for the first time during their annual New York City boat show last week. Its music video, directed by vocalist Rachel Brown, features the Water From Your Eyes members flipping through TV channels and watching themselves starring in different genres: ’90s sitcoms, noir, westerns, talk shows, puppet programming, and the local news.

“Television has always been my biggest passion and this video was mostly conceived from my desire to experiment with the tropes of genre,” says Brown about the music video. “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.”