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Everyone's Crushed

Water From Your Eyes

Everyone's Crushed

Latest release from the Chicago indie pop duo Rachel Brown and Nate Amos

ADM rating[?]

8.1

Label
Matador
UK Release date
26/05/2023
US Release date
26/05/2023
  1. 9.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Six albums in, the real potential of Water From Your Eyes is only just starting to crystallise. Everyone’s Crushed is their best collection of ideas to date, blending disparate elements into a harmonious cacophony you can lose yourself to
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  2. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    Water From Your Eyes traffic between experimental music of the krautrock period of the late 1960s and early 1970s and today’s feminine pop sensibility
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  3. 8.4 |   Beats Per Minute

    Everyone’s Crushed is about nothing, but also about everything – but none of it would matter if the instrumental portion wasn’t as intriguing as the words
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  4. 8.3 |   Paste Magazine

    The experimental rock duo showcase their evolving chemistry across their best album yet
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  5. 8.3 |   Pitchfork

    The Brooklyn duo's logic-defying new album threads anticapitalist critique, stoner humor, and a hazy undercurrent of fatalism into art-pop so mesmerizing it'll give you a contact high
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  6. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    At its worst, the music on Everyone’s Crushed sounds like etudes – studies in experimentalism, finger exercises for tyros in the avant-garde. But when Water From Your Eyes find transcendence – especially on the record’s final two tracks, “14” and the extra winky “Buy My Product” – it can be quite stunning.
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  7. 8.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    As strange as Everyone’s Crushed can get, Water From Your Eyes are not trying to push people away from them. They’re creating a whole new space: one that’s louder, more radical and more hopeful, and also funnier than before
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  8. 8.0 |   All Music

    Some of Water from Your Eyes' most consistently gripping music, the cohesion of Everyone's Crushed lends a new vantage point on their music -- and it's an exciting one
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  9. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Across seven years and several albums this band has been evolving its scattershot sonic collage, and here it feels like they’ve finally found their sound
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  10. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    It’s honest, smart, refined – and simply excellent
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  11. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    Ultimately, Everyone’s Crushed is the summer soundtrack for those that hate summery soundtracks
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  12. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    On their new album, Chicago’s Water From Your Eyes dare to suggest experimental music can be funny
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  13. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    There isn't a single moment on Everyone's Crushed that doesn't feel crafted to perfection, leaving no doubt that Water from Your Eyes is hitting a stride
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  14. 7.7 |   Northern Transmissions

    It’s pretty surprising that Everybody’s Crushed is Water From Your Eyes sixth record. Brown and Amos are keeping things sounding and feeling pretty fresh here
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