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It’s A Beautiful Place

Water From Your Eyes

It’s A Beautiful Place

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

ADM rating[?]

8.1

Label
Matador
UK Release date
22/08/2025
US Release date
22/08/2025
  1. 10.0 |   Spill Magazine

    Ambitious, eclectic, elaborate, and gripping. This is a record that all music lovers need to give a listen
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  2. 8.7 |   Paste Magazine

    The NYC duo’s latest aims to reflect on the general feeling of futility, as well as the struggle to remain optimistic. The result is an album that makes disenchantment feel as grandiose and overwhelming as falling out of love
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  3. 8.5 |   Northern Transmissions

    There was a time when I thought that Water From Your Eyes were great at irony; now, I hear perhaps the most earnest album of 2025—maybe the only sort of earnestness possible anymore
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  4. 8.3 |   Pitchfork

    Nate Amos and Rachel Brown’s latest knotty LP is super chill and totally destabilizing. To call it their “guitar record” would be an injustice to the range and the humor they find in it
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  5. 8.0 |   All Music

    Water from Your Eyes aren't interested in smoothing out their edges or repeating themselves. They're compelled to imagine it different
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  6. 8.0 |   Clash

    It’s essential and current, ending the lyrics for the album on a plea for the future that is not dystopian
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  7. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Unabashed clever buggers, their seventh is where Water From Your Eyes let their hearts rule, and it's a glorious sound. Print edition only

  8. 8.0 |   NME

    One of indie’s most unique duos embrace sci-fi sounds, frightening existentialism and a newfound heaviness on their new album
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  9. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Water From Your Eyes move forward into knotty guitar rock on the succinct It's A Beautiful Place
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  10. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Like the best pranksters, they know that those who get it will get it and appear perfectly content, leaving others confused by their screeching dance-punk genius
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  11. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    Similar to so much modern media, It's a Beautiful Place has a hit-and-run quality to it, resulting in the slightly uneasy feeling that we haven't had enough to time to quite lock in on its wavelength before it blasts back off to its galaxy of origin
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  12. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    It’s A Beautiful Place is an amalgamation of directions, culminating in a product that is lyrically existential, sonically experimental and eerily extraterrestrial
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  13. 8.0 |   Far Out

    Vibrating with dazzling ingenuity and effortless character, It’s a Beautiful Place sees Water From Your Eyes score another captivating and joyous appraisal of the 21st-century songbook
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  14. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    With all its motion, it might leave you a little dizzy, but it’s hard to fault a record that shows you just how awesome and mysterious our world is, even while you’re falling through space
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  15. 7.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    If there’s any musical justice in the world, It’s a Beautiful Place will finally be the gust that pushes Water From Your Eyes into the adoration musicians this talented so richly deserve
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