Life is horribly dark right now. And yet, it is not unfunny. That’s the sentiment that animates Water From Your Eyes on their new album, Everyone’s Crushed. Rachel Brown (they/them) and Nate Amos (he/him) find silliness and fatalism dancing in a frantic lockstep, using heart palpitating rhythms and absurdist, deadpan lyrics to convey stories of personal and societal unease.
The duo started making music together in 2016 and their style has kept evolving, drifting slowly toward rangier and less conventional sounds. On Everyone’s Crushed, they offer experimental pop music that’s pretty and violent, raw and indelible.