Water From Your Eyes – It's A Beautiful Place

It’s A Beautiful Place is a vibrant and adventurous record by Water From Your Eyes, released on August 22, 2025 via Matador Records. Over the course of its ten tracks, the album blends existential themes—cosmic insignificance, hope, meaning—with a rich, experimental sonic palette. The duo, Rachel Brown and Nate Amos, lean into guitar more heavily here than on past releases, yet still maintain their characteristic mix of noise, ambient interludes, shifting time signatures, and playful lyrics. The album moves between moments of raw energy and quieter reflection, offering an experience that feels both emotionally charged and intellectually curious.

Structurally, It’s A Beautiful Place tightens its form. Clocking in under 30 minutes, it balances full-band dynamics with bedroom-produced textures, showing growth in both songcraft and production. From the punchy opener “Life Signs” to the instrumental bookends “One Small Step” and “For Mankind,” there’s a careful arc: abrasive yet melodic, dense yet inviting. For those drawn to art-pop that stretches boundaries without losing heart, this album delivers something that’s both groundbreaking and deeply human.

Reviews:

“Water From Your Eyes can’t be confined to a single genre; It’s A Beautiful Place is an amalgamation of directions, culminating in a product that is lyrically existential, sonically experimental and eerily extraterrestrial.” – The Quietus 
The Quietus

“A two-person mind meld fueled by inside jokes and existential awe, Water From Your Eyes are unreliable narrators who can be counted on to perplex, enthrall, and occasionally shred.” – Pitchfork 
“Brooklyn’s experimental artpop duo Water From Your Eyes are back with It’s a Beautiful Place, an album that crumples genres and musical flavours with aplomb.” – Far Out Magazine 

“‘One Small Step’, the opening track on Water From Your Eyes’ latest album ‘It’s A Beautiful Place’, is a portal to a strange new world. The New York-based duo … themes of science fiction running throughout, coinciding with their most ambitious melding of different styles to date.” – NME 

“It’s A Beautiful Place is a stylised and composed exploration of alternative musical forms. There is a distinctive confidence as Rachel Brown and Nate Amos weave nu-metal backbeat, indie guitar twang, piano motifs and deadpan vocals together.” – Clash Magazine