It's A Beautiful Place

Though 2023’s *Everyone’s Crushed* marked a significant breakthrough for experimental New York pop duo Water From Your Eyes, they didn’t change much in recording its 2025 follow-up, *It’s a Beautiful Place*. The band, which consists of Rachel Brown and Nate Amos, made the album where they have always recorded: in Amos’ bedroom. The homespun feel doesn’t necessarily lend itself to the sound, though, which finds Water From Your Eyes at their sharpest and most daring. “Life Signs” imagines a middle ground between post-punk and Anticon-style abstract rap. “Nights in Armor” bursts with crunching guitars and a pummeling floor tom, an atmosphere that moves to the background as layers of Brown’s vocals fight for space amid the chaos. No sound, no concept, no lyric is off-limits for the duo, and it’s exhilarating to witness just how many disparate ideas they consistently attempt to fit into traditional and non-traditional pop structures.

Nate Amos and Rachel Brown’s latest knotty LP is super chill and totally destabilizing. To call it their “guitar record” would be an injustice to the range and the humor they find in it.

Water From Your Eyes embrace sci-fi sounds, frightening existentialism and a newfound heaviness on new album ’It’s A Beautiful Place’

It's a Beautiful Place is an album of focus and dedication to its oddness and brilliance from Water From Your Eyes.

Water From Your Eyes' latest aims to reflect on the general feeling of futility, as well as the struggle to remain optimistic. The result is an album that makes disenchantment feel as grandiose and overwhelming as falling out of love.

With their seventh album in just eight years, Rachel Brown and Nate Amos deliver a restless, shape-shifting record that blurs the line between music and art

Water From Your Eyes move forward into knotty guitar rock on the succinct 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

It's A Beautiful Place by Water From Your Eyes album review by Madelyn Dawson for Northern Transmissions. The duo's LP drops on August 22