Daily Edit | Aug 25

From Brooklyn
For fans of Black Country New Road, Dry Cleaning, Bar Italia

It’s A Beautiful Place is a lean album: six full songs and four instrumental interstitials totalling 29 minutes of music. But it feels so much more expansive than that. Within that brisk running time, their music is overflowing with ideas, carefully calibrated to sit just right amongst each other. Water From Your Eyes are one of those Rorschach test bands — are they indie weirdos or are they really trying to make ’90s alt-rock, are they accessible or difficult, etc. — and that is partially by design. Amos once told me the band works best when “every song is a remix of a song that doesn’t exist,” and the kaleidoscopic blend of genres and eras is intrinsic to the whole point of It’s A Beautiful Place. “We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything’s just a tiny blip,” Amos said recently. - Stereogum

8 / 25 / 2025

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