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\n\tWhen you hit play on Water From Your Eyes<\/a>\u2019 new album, It\u2019s a Beautiful Place<\/em>, you\u2019re taking a journey to the farthest reaches of outer space and the tiniest limits of microscopic reality. You\u2019re also listening to a bunch of stunningly original songs made by the New York-based duo of multi-instrumentalist\/producer Nate Amos and vocalist Rachel Brown. Out now on Matador Records, it\u2019s the first album this impossible-to-classify group has made with the knowledge that a big audience is listening to their zany experiments.<\/p>\n \n\tIn their recent Rolling Stone<\/em> feature<\/a>, Amos and Brown talked about their whole story up to and including the making of this LP, but there was plenty that we couldn\u2019t fit into that article. Here, we present more of the deep thoughts, sideways concepts, and inside jokes behind the 10 tracks on Water From Your Eyes\u2019 new album.<\/p>\n \n\tIt\u2019s a Beautiful Place<\/em> opens with an oddly mesmerizing instrumental loop whose title alludes to Neil Armstrong\u2019s first words when he set foot on the moon in July 1969.\u00a0 For some reason \u2014 perhaps a distant kinship with the \u201cBaba O\u2019Riley\u201d keyboards \u2014 this piece of music reminds Amos of the cover art for 1971\u2019s Who\u2019s Next<\/em><\/a>, in which the four members of the Who appear to have just finished urinating on a large concrete block. \u201cFor years and years, that was on my computer as \u2018Piss Monolith,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cTo me, that\u2019s the most interesting thing on the whole album.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tNext up is this wild blizzard of riffs. With rapid-fire flashes of nu-metal, alt-rock, electronic, and pop production styles, \u201cLife Signs\u201d<\/a> is a song that probably shouldn\u2019t work on paper, but totally does when you hear it. They chose to release it as the first single from It\u2019s a Beautiful Place<\/em>. \u201cI think about first singles from albums like that scene in Lord of the Rings<\/em> where Aragorn comes into the hall<\/a>,\u201d Amos says. \u201cCertain songs feel like bigger doors to be busting through, and \u2018Life Signs\u2019 felt like the biggest door we could be kicking down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t\u201cOne Small Step\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n
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