“Their most joyously out-there achievement yet — a mind-blowing concept album about time, space travel, and the nature of reality” – Rolling Stone
“A strangely addictive confection” – The Guardian on ‘Playing Classics’
"Brilliantly subversive (...) a glorious sound" – MOJO ****
“a dizzying, technicolour collage” – The Quietus
“Brilliant, and sure to send them further into the indie rock cosmos that they’ve been orbiting for the last few years” – NME
This Friday marks the release of It’s a Beautiful Place, the latest album from Water From Your Eyes—a chrome-glazed, head-spinning triumph hailed by Rolling Stone as “their most joyously out-there achievement yet.” Today, dive into the album’s radiant third single, “Nights in Armor,” and watch its accompanying video, directed by Jo Shaffer.
“Nights in Armor” began as a quirky Lorelei demo titled “Grill,” recalls Nate Amos. “The riff always felt stronger than the song itself, so I reimagined it with new instrumentation designed to cast the guitar in a completely different emotional light. I wrestled with the vocal hook for ages—at one point I reversed it and built the bass line around that backward melody.”
Now performing as a four-piece with Al Nardo (guitar) and Bailey Wollowitz (drums), Water From Your Eyes will support It’s a Beautiful Place with expansive headline tours across North America and Europe. The European leg kicks off November 13 at London’s Village Underground and wraps December 7 at Musicbox in Lisbon. Tickets available HERE.
Before the tour begins, the band will host a special album launch party at Rough Trade East in London on August 21. Fans and friends are invited to join the duo for one of their favourite pastimes: karaoke. Free tickets are available HERE.
Since their 2023 breakout Everyone’s Crushed—their Matador debut and a critical darling featured in year-end lists from The New York Times, The Guardian, Pitchfork, NME, Vogue, Wired, and Rolling Stone—Rachel Brown (they/them) and Nate Amos (he/him) have become fixtures of New York’s alternative music scene and beloved underground exports. They’ve played massive stages supporting Interpol, including a crowd of 160,000 in Mexico City, and back home, launched a DIY boat show series on the East River, spotlighting acts like YHWH Nailgun, Model/Actriz, Frost Children, and Kassie Krut. Brown released a new EP under their thanks for coming alias, while Amos dropped a critically acclaimed album as This Is Lorelei.
It’s a Beautiful Place was completed last summer in classic WFYE fashion: in Amos’s bedroom, under the gaze of a worn Robin Williams poster from his Mork & Mindy days. “Robin’s basically our silent third member,” Amos jokes. The album’s lead single, “Life Signs,” was crafted with the energy of a full live band in mind. “Playing with a group changes how you write,” Amos explains. “This was the first time I imagined WFYE performing somewhere bigger than a basement.”
“Nights in Armor” opens with a rush of Frusciante-style Stratocaster bliss. “Born 2” delivers a guitar-driven sonic barrage, its lyrics steeped in sci-fi and political theory as Brown’s vocals soar: “the world is so common / and born to become / something else.” Brown cites two literary companions that shaped the album’s lyrical themes: Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1974 anarchist utopia The Dispossessed and Marcello Tarì’s 2017 non-fiction work There Is No Unhappy Revolution. “They’ve traveled with me across four continents and nearly every U.S. state,” Brown shares. “While writing, I combed through both books again and again.”
It’s a Beautiful Place captures a band that’s transformed their eccentricities into brilliance. It’s haunting and hopeful, cinematic and surreal—think Blade Runner meets WALL-E, with shades of Kubrick, Asimov, and a wink of Jay and Silent Bob. These songs gaze outward, grappling with cosmic questions and existential wonder, all while celebrating the strange beauty of the world around us.
IT’S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TRACKLIST
1.One Small Step
2. Life Signs
4. Born 2
5. You Don’t Believe in God?
6. Spaceship
8. It’s a Beautiful Place
9. Blood on the Dollar
10. For Mankind
LIVE DATES
NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR
Sept 22 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s ^
Sept 23 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis ^
Sept 24 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle Back Room ^
Sept 26 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl ^
Sept 27 - Nashville, TN @ Blue Room ^
Sept 28 - St Louis, MO @ Old Rock House ^
Sept 30 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry ^
Oct 1 - Madison WI, @ High Noon Saloon ^
Oct 2 - Chicago IL, @ Sleeping Village ^
Oct 3 - Detroit MI, @ El Club ^
Oct 6 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz ^
Oct 7 - Amherst, MA @ The Drake ^
Oct 8 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair ^
Oct 10 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom ^
Oct 21 - Austin TX @ Parish #
Oct 22 - Dallas, TX @ Dada #
Oct 24 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar %
Oct 25 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge %
Oct 26 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah %
Oct 27 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room %
Oct 29 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent %
Oct 31 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios %
Nov 1 - Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou's %
Nov 2 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret %
Nov 4 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux %
Nov 5 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court %
Nov 7 - Denver, CO @ Globe Hall %
^ w/ Her New Knife
# w/ Winter
% w/ Dutch Interior
EU HEADLINE TOUR
Nov 13th - London, UK @ Village Underground
Nov 14th - Manchester, UK @ YES
Nov 15th - Glasgow, UK @ The Rum Shack
Nov 16th - Dublin, IE @ The Workman's Club
Nov 18th - Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
Nov 20th - Brussels, BE @ Botanique Rotonde
Nov 21st - Cologne, DE @ 674FM
Nov 23rd - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso (Small Hall)
Nov 24th - Hamburg, DE @ Aalhaus
Nov 25th - Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar
Nov 26th - Berlin, DE @ Lark
Nov 28th - Munich, DE @ Import/Export
Nov 29th - Milan, IT @ Arci Bellezza
Nov 30th - Dudingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
Dec 2nd - Paris, FR @ Boule Noire
Dec 3rd - Lyon, FR @ Le Sonic
Dec 5th - Barcelona, ES @ Sala Upload
Dec 6th - Madrid, ES @ Sala Sol
Dec 7th - Lisbon, PT @ Musicbox
