Water From Your Eyes: Everyone's Crushed (red vinyl, indie exclusive) [MATADOR]

Why you'll love it

This is the limited red vinyl indie edition of the album that brought Water From Your Eyes to Matador. Metacritic scored it 84 for "universal acclaim," and Pitchfork named it Best New Music.

This edition

• Limited red vinyl, indie shop edition
• Printed inner sleeve

About the album

Rachel Brown and Nate Amos had been making records as Water From Your Eyes for years, and on their sixth album, their first for Matador, everything they'd been tinkering with clicked into place. Everyone's Crushed is short, sharp and slightly unhinged: Brown's deadpan vocals sit on top of Amos' jagged guitars and lurching rhythms, and the songs keep veering off course before snapping back into hooks you'll be humming at the bus stop.

"Barley" is the one people know, all clanging riff and dry humour, and Pitchfork's Marc Hogan went so far as to suggest it for a Grammy. "True Life" and "14" show the softer side, and "Buy My Product" closes things with a joke that also works as a song. As for the title, it describes the shop staff's reaction to the record well enough that we've stopped looking for a better word.

There isn't a single moment on Everyone's Crushed that isn't crafted to perfection.
Tom Piekarski, Exclaim!

Tracklist

Listen

On Matador (cat# OLE1930LPE), first out in 2023.