Biography
The restlessly inventive pair Nate Amos and Rachel Brown, who record as Water from Your Eyes, craft experimental pop that balances infectious hooks with demanding structures and sharp humor with genuine depth. Having begun as devotees of New Order, Brown and Amos steadily broadened their palette, weaving traces of folk, industrial, and Krautrock into the 2019 release Somebody Else's Song. The Brooklyn-via-Chicago duo reached a critical and artistic peak with the widely praised 2021 album Structure, which wove spoken word passages, danceable beats, gently soaring melodies, and abrasive synth textures into disorienting yet emotionally direct tracks. Water from Your Eyes continued to reveal new dimensions of their fluid sound through the avant-garde inclinations and deadpan humor of 2023's Everyone's Crushed, followed the next year by an expansive reinterpretation of Giant Sand's "Warm Storm."
A former class clown who once aimed to write for television comedies and also releases music as Thanks for Coming, Brown joined forces with Amos, who had already performed in more than ten bands before finishing high school and records solo work as This Is Lorelei; the two first connected via Chicago's underground scene and later became romantically involved. They launched Water from Your Eyes in mid-2016 on impulse after Amos played Brown New Order's catalog. Originally envisioning the project as a "sad dance band," the pair tracked its self-titled EP in a single week during Brown's break from New York University studies, and the record appeared on Grandpa Bay in August 2016. When the EP's bubbling synth pop drew positive blog attention, Amos and Brown chose to sustain Water from Your Eyes as a long-distance endeavor. Sooper Records issued the somewhat refined Long Days, No Dreams in April 2017; the III EP arrived that May with a glitchier, sample-driven focus; and August's Feels a Lot Like incorporated jangly guitar-based pop.
Once Amos relocated to Brooklyn in 2017, the duo gained greater freedom to refine their material and perform live. Their third album and first for Exploding in Sound, January 2018's All a Dance, marked a sharper turn toward experimentation; composed and captured in two weeks, it presented wide-ranging pieces drawn from the viewpoints of characters in films such as Gladiator while emphasizing the hypnotic electronic pulses already central to their work. Boundaries expanded further on the follow-up, October 2019's Somebody Else's Song, a two-year effort that moved across folky pop, extended Motorik passages, and electronic pop while drawing from artists spanning Randy Newman to Scott Walker. Water from Your Eyes issued the March 2020 33:44 EP, blending spoken word with industrial elements, then January 2021's Somebody Else's Songs, which gathered covers including OMC's "How Bizarre" and Eminem's "Lose Yourself."
Brown and Amos concluded their romantic partnership before beginning their fourth album. The aftermath of that separation, alongside the immersive abstraction of Mark Rothko's paintings and Ween's tragicomic approach, informed August 2021's Structure. Issued by Wharf Cat, the record's symmetrical halves juxtaposed intimate ballads, cathartic noise, surreal spoken word, and euphoric electro pop, earning Water from Your Eyes their broadest acclaim yet. During 2022 Amos started the project My Idea alongside Palberta's Lily Konigsberg; at the same time Water from Your Eyes toured with Pavement and Interpol before signing to Matador, the label associated with both bands, early the following year. Matador released Everyone's Crushed in May 2023, a wryly comic collection assembled before and during the making of Structure that broke down and reassembled elements of dance music, modern composition, and classic rock. That November the duo issued Crushed by Everyone, a remix collection featuring contributions from Nourished by Time and Mandy, Indiana. Although Amos and Brown each pursued solo work—Thanks for Coming releasing What Is My Capacity to Love? and Deleted Album, Sorry while This Is Lorelei readied Box for Buddy, Box for Star—they reconvened as Water from Your Eyes to record a version of "Warm Storm" for the 2024 Giant Sand tribute album Sand Worms.
A former class clown who once aimed to write for television comedies and also releases music as Thanks for Coming, Brown joined forces with Amos, who had already performed in more than ten bands before finishing high school and records solo work as This Is Lorelei; the two first connected via Chicago's underground scene and later became romantically involved. They launched Water from Your Eyes in mid-2016 on impulse after Amos played Brown New Order's catalog. Originally envisioning the project as a "sad dance band," the pair tracked its self-titled EP in a single week during Brown's break from New York University studies, and the record appeared on Grandpa Bay in August 2016. When the EP's bubbling synth pop drew positive blog attention, Amos and Brown chose to sustain Water from Your Eyes as a long-distance endeavor. Sooper Records issued the somewhat refined Long Days, No Dreams in April 2017; the III EP arrived that May with a glitchier, sample-driven focus; and August's Feels a Lot Like incorporated jangly guitar-based pop.
Once Amos relocated to Brooklyn in 2017, the duo gained greater freedom to refine their material and perform live. Their third album and first for Exploding in Sound, January 2018's All a Dance, marked a sharper turn toward experimentation; composed and captured in two weeks, it presented wide-ranging pieces drawn from the viewpoints of characters in films such as Gladiator while emphasizing the hypnotic electronic pulses already central to their work. Boundaries expanded further on the follow-up, October 2019's Somebody Else's Song, a two-year effort that moved across folky pop, extended Motorik passages, and electronic pop while drawing from artists spanning Randy Newman to Scott Walker. Water from Your Eyes issued the March 2020 33:44 EP, blending spoken word with industrial elements, then January 2021's Somebody Else's Songs, which gathered covers including OMC's "How Bizarre" and Eminem's "Lose Yourself."
Brown and Amos concluded their romantic partnership before beginning their fourth album. The aftermath of that separation, alongside the immersive abstraction of Mark Rothko's paintings and Ween's tragicomic approach, informed August 2021's Structure. Issued by Wharf Cat, the record's symmetrical halves juxtaposed intimate ballads, cathartic noise, surreal spoken word, and euphoric electro pop, earning Water from Your Eyes their broadest acclaim yet. During 2022 Amos started the project My Idea alongside Palberta's Lily Konigsberg; at the same time Water from Your Eyes toured with Pavement and Interpol before signing to Matador, the label associated with both bands, early the following year. Matador released Everyone's Crushed in May 2023, a wryly comic collection assembled before and during the making of Structure that broke down and reassembled elements of dance music, modern composition, and classic rock. That November the duo issued Crushed by Everyone, a remix collection featuring contributions from Nourished by Time and Mandy, Indiana. Although Amos and Brown each pursued solo work—Thanks for Coming releasing What Is My Capacity to Love? and Deleted Album, Sorry while This Is Lorelei readied Box for Buddy, Box for Star—they reconvened as Water from Your Eyes to record a version of "Warm Storm" for the 2024 Giant Sand tribute album Sand Worms.
Albums
It's Beautiful
2025
It's a Beautiful Place
2025
MP3 Player 1
2024
Crushed By Everyone
2023
Everyone's Crushed
2023
Somebody Else's Song
2019
Long Days, No Dreams
2018
All a Dance
2018
Singles
