WATER FROM YOUR EYES – Its A Beautiful Place – LP – Black Vinyl

LP – Black Vinyl.

Its A Beautiful Place opens with zero-gravity instrumental One Small Step a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for New York duo Water From Your Eyes. The album is a gleaming megalopolis, a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness. It ended up being about time, dinosaurs and space, says Nate Amos. We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everythings just a tiny blip.

The duo recorded the bulk of Its A Beautiful Place last summer, just as they have every other WFYE release: in Amoss bedroom. But this time, much of the writing and recording were shaped around the dynamics of a full-blooded live group: When youre playing with a band you tend to write with one in mind – this was the first time I wrote anything for WFYE imagining us playing anywhere bigger than a basement, he observes.

Throughout the album is a clear sense of a band who have honed their curveballs into home runs. Looming and melancholy, wide-eyed and petrified, its Blade Runner meets WALL-E, its Kubrick and Asimov with a hint of Jay and Silent Bob. These are songs that look outward, conscious of our smallness and questioning our place in the universe while admiring the surrounding beauty.

A song can feel like everything, communicating vast emotional landscapes, says Amos, but your favorite album is less important than any person. That person is less interesting than any mountain. That mountain is boring compared to any planet. That planet is only a part of a solar system. If music and all other human practices are meaningless on a cosmic scale why does it still feel so important?

One of the most exciting bands out there right now. Rolling Stone

Theres a lot of beauty to be found in the scatterbrained mayhem. Stereogum

Excellent The New York Times

Thrilling The Guardian

WFYE are one of the most interesting acts in music these days. Under the Radar

Tracklist:

Side A
1. One Small Step
2. Life Sings
3. Nights in Armor
4. Born 2
5. You Dont Believe in God?

Side B
1. Spaceship
2. Playing Classics
3. Its a Beautiful Place
4. Blood on the Dollar
5. For Mankind