Water From Your Eyes – Nights in Armor
Water From Your Eyes drops their final single before Friday’s album release, and “Nights in Armor” shows exactly why It’s a Beautiful Place might be their best work yet. The track started as a leftover riff from Nate Amos’s solo project This Is Lorelei, a song called “Grill” that never quite worked. Instead of scrapping it, Amos rebuilt the whole thing around that guitar part, flipping it into different emotional territory.
The result feels like bedroom pop getting hit by a freight train. Rachel Brown’s muted vocals drift over a tinny guitar line before everything explodes into double-time kick drums that shouldn’t work but do. It’s chaotic in the best way – the kind of controlled mess that comes from knowing exactly what you’re doing. Brown sings about animosity and defeat (“Bankrupt on top/ Yeah, you won”), while the music bounces between gentle and aggressive.
That experimental approach runs through everything Water From Your Eyes does, but here it feels more focused than ever. The band’s now performing as a four-piece with Al Nardo on guitar and Bailey Wollowitz on drums, and you can hear how that fuller sound shaped the writing.
The track comes with a Jo Shaffer-directed video that matches the song’s heated punch. It’s the third single from It’s a Beautiful Place, following “Life Signs” and “Playing Classics,” and it confirms the album’s promise of being their “most joyously out there achievement yet.”
Tracklist:
- One Small Step
- Life Signs
- Nights in Armor
- Born 2
- You Don’t Believe in God?
- Spaceship
- Playing Classics
- It’s a Beautiful Place
- Blood on the Dollar
- For Mankind
Tour Dates:
North America:
- September 22 – Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA
- September 23 – The Atlantis, Washington, DC
- September 24 – Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro, NC
- September 26 – The Earl, Atlanta, GA
- September 27 – Blue Room, Nashville, TN
- September 28 – Old Rock House, St. Louis, MO
- September 30 – 7th St Entry, Minneapolis, MN
- October 1 – High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
- October 2 – Sleeping Village, Chicago, IL
- October 3 – El Club, Detroit, MI
- October 4 – Project Nowhere, Toronto, ON
- October 6 – Bar Le Ritz, Montreal, QC
- October 7 – The Drake, Amherst, MA
- October 8 – The Sinclair, Boston, MA
- October 10 – Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
- October 21 – Parish, Austin, TX
- October 22 – Dada, Dallas, TX
- October 24 – Sister Bar, Albuquerque, NM
- October 25 – The Rebel Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
- October 26 – Casbah, San Diego, CA
- October 27 – Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA
- October 29 – The Independent, San Francisco, CA
- October 31 – Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR
- November 1 – Madame Lou’s, Seattle, WA
- November 2 – Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC
- November 4 – Neurolux, Boise, ID
- November 5 – Kilby Court, Salt Lake City, UT
- November 7 – Globe Hall, Denver, CO
Europe:
- November 13 – Village Underground, London, UK
- November 14 – YES, Manchester, UK
- November 15 – The Rum Shack, Glasgow, UK
- November 16 – The Workman’s Club, Dublin, Ireland
- November 18 – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
- November 20 – Botanique Rotonde, Brussels, Belgium
- November 21 – 674FM, Cologne, Germany
- November 23 – Paradiso (Small Hall), Amsterdam, Netherlands
- November 24 – Aalhaus, Hamburg, Germany
- November 25 – Ideal Bar, Copenhagen, Denmark
- November 26 – Lark, Berlin, Germany
- November 28 – Import/Export, Munich, Germany
- November 29 – Arci Bellezza, Milan, Italy
- November 30 – Bad Bonn, Düdingen, Switzerland
- December 2 – Boule Noire, Paris, France
- December 3 – Le Sonic, Lyon, France
- December 5 – Sala Upload, Barcelona, Spain
- December 6 – Sala Sol, Madrid, Spain
- December 7 – Musicbox, Lisbon, Portugal
