Is that Water From Your Eyes frontperson Rachel Brown making an allusion to “6 God” on the band’s new single “Life Indicators”? Actually, they’re mumbling “sick sky,” however the mondegreen reveals one thing concerning the tune’s associative, densely rhyming spoken verses––“Tick tick you’re alive sunlit sick sky scraped by shiny eyed quick sight on-line.” The primary single from the forthcoming album It’s a Stunning Place operates like language poetry, preserving the band’s freneticism and oddity in doomscroll onomatopoeia.
Final week, I had the pleasure of seeing the self-described “dance-punk” outfit carry out it as a quartet (Brown and Nate Amos added Al Nardo and Bailey Wollowitz of fantasy of a damaged coronary heart) on their third-annual rock cruise. A moshpit shaped in seconds and shortly tipped starboard. A violent duet of rhythm and lead guitars opens the observe, one taunting and the opposite charging after it. The resultant conflict strikes someplace between Metallica and Title Combat, however Water From Your Eyes haven’t forgone dynamism and experimentation within the quest for hardcore energy; Brown’s diaphanous refrain floats by the maelstrom like a valkyrie lifting troopers from the battlefield. After 5 and a half albums, Water From Your Eyes are coming for blood.
