As they approach the release of their new album, It’s a Beautiful Place, this Friday, New York-based indie duo Water From Your Eyes release the final cut: ‘Nights in Armor’. The duo — consisting of longtime collaborators Nate Amos (This Is Lorelei) and Rachel Brown — have grounded themselves within the alternative music scene, drifting through art-pop and dance punk spheres, digging into disorienting experimentalism and creating songs of confounding textures. ‘Nights in Armor’ itself has a tangled lineage. First written as a track called ‘Grill’ for Amos’ project, This Is Lorelei, it re-emerges here with an entirely different skin. As Amos recalls: “I always felt like the riff was cooler than the song, so I recycled it into a new track and added other instrumentation specifically meant to place the guitar part in a radically different context to see what other emotional roles it could play. I remember struggling with writing a vocal hook I was happy with and I’m pretty sure at a certain part I reversed it and built the bass line around the backwards melody.” The experimentation pays off, as‘Nights in Armor’ brims with contradictions. Quick, frenetic strums shimmer against a comparatively dredgier electric guitar line while flickering percussive textures snap and scatter across the mix like mechanical insects. Brown’s lo-fi, spectral vocals feel broadcast from above, hazy and commanding, grounding the song even as it spins into abstraction. The closing fragments - “Dog days / Epoch / Bankrupt on top yeah you won / You stole the sun” refract a detached pain through universal collapse. By the time Brown declares, 'Fight me I burn brighter,”, there's no surrender; rather an incandescent challenge. The result is both hypnotic and alien, like a sci-fi delirium transmitted through shortwave radio, a sound that teeters between intimacy and disorientation. -Kayla Sandiford