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‘Your favourite album is not as cool as any dinosaur’: set sail with New York art rock duo Water From Your Eyes

Playing on party boats, recreating Chili Peppers videos: the experimental pair are committed to the bit – with a new album influenced by lockdown, recovery and Stonehenge

Below deck, the band’s Rachel Brown and Nate Amos seem to have found their sea legs: a mosh pit erupts as they rip into Life Signs, the playfully proggy lead single from their forthcoming album, It’s a Beautiful Place. Inspired by New Order, they made melancholic dance music, albeit written “from the perspectives of animals and background movie characters,” says Brown.No longer romantically involved by 2019, the pair were living in Brooklyn and performing regularly at DIY spots, experiences that encouraged them to make bolder choices. It is the band’s most guitar-forward record yet, a natural consequence of the extensive touring behind its predecessor, 2023’s Everyone’s Crushed and an expanded live outfit, courtesy of guitarist Al Nardo and drummer Bailey Wollowitz, who play together as Fantasy of a Broken Heart.

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