Consumer Guide Album

Water From Your Eyes: Everyone's Crushed [Matador, 2023]
From a band consisting entirely of instrumentalist Nate Amos and vocalist Rachel Brown, a major-minor-label debut that's their fifth long player all told proves a ramshackle, associative, textural, synthpoppy, sneaky kinda thing that turns modestly captivating inside of a minute despite a lyric that as of that moment still pretty much comprises the single phrase "Your cool thing count mountains." Later the same mystery woman is "wearing gold" in a sequence of songs or "songs" that no one would call catchy except for the inconvenient fact not just that they are but that they could go head to head with the covers EP the duo put out in 2021. Experimental yet also congenial, questing yet also homey, here be two young people finding their voice without saying all that much. I hope they work on that. But if they choose not to I expect to dig them anyway. A