Water From Your Eyes compose freaky pop music out of helter-skelter beats, pitch-bent guitars, weltering synth glitches, signal-jammed earworms, and vocalist Rachel Brown’s sometimes chanted, sometimes chatty, always oddly catchy cadences. Preceded by “Barley,” the alt-pop artists’ sixth studio album and Matador debut twists familiar sounds into horribly misshapen, Beefheartian symphonies that nonetheless make sense of our broken times and minds. Read Pitchfork’s feature “Alt-Pop Duo Water From Your Eyes Commit to the Bit.”
Listen on Apple Music
Listen on Spotify
Listen on Tidal
Listen on Amazon Music
Listen/Buy at Bandcamp
Buy at Rough Trade
Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine [Transgressive]
Arlo Parks wrote her second album of immersive indie folk, pop, and rock about a first love, “mid-twenties anxiety,” her friends’ substance use, and “PTSD and grief and self sabotage and joy, moving through worlds with wonder and sensitivity,” she said in press materials. The British singer-songwriter named the album after a quote from Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir about the allure of cinema: “We don’t want to see life as it is played out; we want to see life as it is experienced in this soft machine.” Phoebe Bridgers features on the single “Pegasus.”
Listen on Apple Music
Listen on Spotify
Listen on Tidal
Listen on Amazon Music
Listen/Buy at Bandcamp
Buy at Rough Trade
Jay Worthy & Roc Marciano: Nothing Bigger Than the Program [GDF/Marci Enterprises/Empire]
