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WATER FROM YOUR EYES TRUE LIFE

Water From Your Eyes are an experimental art-pop duo made up of multi-instrumentalists Nate Amos and Rachel Brown, who have just released new single 'True Life' from their upcoming album Everyone’s Crushed. Following on from last month's 'Barley' the album is shaping up to be a wonderfully disparate welding of sounds and genres. Very experimental but distinctly pop inspired, 'True Life' opens with warped guitar stabs that give way to pummelling drums with Rachel Browns surreal lyricism that addresses legal issues with using Neil Young's lyrics. “‘True Life’ is our Neil Young-inspired quasi-nu metal stomp. It is also intended to be our ‘Short Skirt / Long Jacket,'” the pair said in a statement. “The bridge was initially meant to contain lyrics from ‘Cinnamon Girl,’ but Neil Young’s lawyers wouldn’t let us use them. Now they are about how Neil Young wouldn’t let us use his words. The rest of the song deals with life and assorted complications of the material world.” Everyone’s Crushed is set for release on May 26th on Matador Records, check out the video animated by artist Sabrina Nichols. -Toby Evans-Jesra

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