UPC: 0191401213110 It's A Beautiful Place , the new full-length from Water From Your Eyes out on Matador, opens with zero-gravity instrumental 'One Small Step' - a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for the New York duo. The album is a gleaming megalopolis: a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness. "It ended up being about time, dinosaurs and space," says Nate Amos. "We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything's just a tiny blip." In the time since 2023's Everyone's Crushed , their Matador debut and critical breakout - which appeared in end of year lists by The New York Times, The Guardian, Pitchfork, NME, Vogue, Wired and Rolling Stone - Rachel Brown and Nate Amos have become a pillar of the city's alternative music scene and one of its most revered underground exports. Live, they've expanded to a quartet, joining forces with guitarist Al Nardo and drummer Bailey Wollowitz of NYC duo Fantasy of a Broken Heart. They played huge stages supporting Interpol on tour, including in front of 160,000 fans in Mexico City. Back home, the band established a DIY boat show franchise on the East River, hosting friends at the heart of the city's musical vanguard including YHWH Nailgun, Model/Actriz, Frost Children, and Kassie Krut. Brown released a new EP under their thanks for coming moniker, while Amos released an acclaimed full length under his This Is Lorelei solo project. The duo recorded the bulk of It's a Beautiful Place last summer, just as they have every other WFYE release: in Amos's bedroom, under the watchful eye of a tattered Robin Williams poster from the Mork & Mindy era.. "Basically," jokes Amos, "Robin is like a silent member of Water From Your Eyes." But this time, much of the writing and recording were shaped around the dynamics of a full-blooded live group: ...