It's A Beautiful Place

It’s a Beautiful Place is yet another helping of playful, left-field, fun as hell indie rock.

A front-row seat for the Amos-Brown mind meld—sprawling, amorphous, hermetic, overwhelming, heartbreaking, funny as hell. It’s a privileged vantage point.

Like such fellow travellers as Horse Lords and Still House Plants, the band often seem hellbent on inaugurating a post-rock revival. [Nov 2025, p.39]

The duo have been fleshed out into a foursome, adding members who help augment the sound to encompass elements of stoner metal, jazz, disco, funk, and more. A sonic stew of sorts, and yet it’s all so fluid as to dissolve almost any hint of influences. Everything feels thick and significant.

Throughout, Amos' playing is brilliant, ranging from savagely intense on Life Signs to Nights In Amor's classic FM radio pop. Yet the highlight is full-on techno monster Playing Classics, six minutes of delirious abandon. A beautiful place is right. [Oct 2025, p.133]

Given the multitudes within It's a Beautiful Place, it's not surprising that it can take a while for all of its pieces to click together. Nor is it a surprise that this album is more of a grower than Everyone's Crushed -- Water from Your Eyes aren't interested in smoothing out their edges or repeating themselves. They're compelled to imagine it different

There is a distinctive confidence as Rachel Brown and Nate Amos weave nu-metal backbeat, indie guitar twang, piano motifs and deadpan vocals together.

For this seventh album in just under a decade, the duo continue their upward trajectory, finding new and casually complex ways of expressing their musical minds.

It’s A Beautiful Place is an amalgamation of directions, culminating in a product that is lyrically existential, sonically experimental and eerily extraterrestrial.

It’s an album of such focus and dedication to its oddness and brilliance that you can tell just how much work has been put in.

While the material is scarce, the quality is a renewable resource on par with a nuclear fusion plant. Choruses hum, drumlines bounce, and there's always enough subversion for leftovers.

Unabashed clever buggers, their seventh is where Water From Your Eyes let their hearts rule, and it's a glorious sound. [Oct 2025, p.86]

Refusing to conform to trends, Water From Your Eyes continue to push themselves to new experimental heights.