Water From Your Eyes run for cover(s)
thefader.comWater From Your Eyes don’t take much seriously, but they are deeply invested in cover songs. The discography of Nate Amos and Rachel Brown’s Brooklyn-based project is partially defined by their versions of other people’s songs: In 2019 they released the aptly titled Somebody Else’s Songs featuring their take on tracks by artists like Eminem, No Doubt, and Carly Rae Jepsen.
The passion is occasionally irrepressible: a song on their 2023 album Everyone’s Crushed titled “True Life” includes Brown singing, “Neil, let me sing your song,” a reference to their plan to interpolate Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl” in a track but being denied by his legal team.
Today they share MP3 Player 1, an EP of new covers they made while working on last year’s Everyone’s Crushed. With a tracklist that includes deep cuts by Chumbawamba, and Third Eye Blind, plus Adele’s “Someone Like You” done in the style of The Cure, MP3 Player 1 is playful and free like a good time at the karaoke bar, one where a friend shows a side of themselves you haven’t quite seen expressed so clearly.
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