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Six albums in, the real potential of Water From Your Eyes is only just starting to crystallise. Everyone’s Crushed is their best collection of ideas to date, blending disparate elements into a harmonious cacophony you can lose yourself to. The exciting thing is that we doubt they’ve even reached the peak of their inspiring, oddball sounds.
90
Water From Your Eyes traffic between experimental music of the krautrock period of the late 1960s and early 1970s and today’s feminine pop sensibility.
84
Jumping to Matador for Everyone’s Crushed was a bold move; they now get mentioned in the same breath as Interpol and Spoon, two bands they’ve opened for. Now their music and hopefully influence can reach further, because today’s musical landscape seems devoid of this kind of truly offbeat humor.
83
The experimental rock duo showcase their evolving chemistry across their best album yet.
83
The Brooklyn duo's logic-defying new album threads anticapitalist critique, stoner humor, and a hazy undercurrent of fatalism into art-pop so mesmerizing it'll give you a contact high.
80
Their anarchic cut'n'paste confections can baffle on first exposure, but with repeat listens the inventiveness of their compositions come to the fore, savvy hooks materialising from the seeming chaos of loops and samples.
80
Thankfully, Everyone’s Crushed isn’t pissing anyone off despite any trollish intention. It’s honest, smart, refined – and simply excellent.
80
On their new album, Chicago’s Water From Your Eyes dare to suggest experimental music can be funny.
80
There isn't a single moment on Everyone's Crushed that doesn't feel crafted to perfection, leaving no doubt that Water from Your Eyes is hitting a stride.
80
Water From Your Eyes are one of the most interesting acts in music these days and no doubt a coup for Matador to get them in their grasp. If creating the music on Everyone’s Crushed was as fun as it is to consume, it’s a wonder that Brown and Amos take time to eat or bowl a few frames.
80
Across seven years and several albums this band has been evolving its scattershot sonic collage, and here it feels like they’ve finally found their sound.
80
Some of Water from Your Eyes' most consistently gripping music, the cohesion of Everyone's Crushed lends a new vantage point on their music -- and it's an exciting one.
80
The avant-pop duo melds lyrical free-association with enjoyably disorienting music on their great new LP.
80
As strange as Everyone’s Crushed can get, Water From Your Eyes are not trying to push people away from them. They’re creating a whole new space: one that’s louder, more radical and more hopeful, and also funnier than before.
80
Unwilling to finish on “14”’s vulnerability, Water From Your Eyes keep us at arm’s length, but eager to burrow deep and discover everything this album has to offer.
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77
It’s pretty surprising that Everybody’s Crushed is Water From Your Eyes sixth record. Brown and Amos are keeping things sounding and feeling pretty fresh here.
Brief Review: Pretty solid post-punk album. Nothing much else to say about it tbh, it just does everything pretty damn well. Not much else to say tbh.
A hard one to pigeonhole in the current indie landscape - I've heard people throw this in with the crop of recent post punk acts and that doesn't feel quite right.
To my ears this is more like mixing some BSS, Radiohead and LCD Soundsystem with additional noise and 'no wave' orientated elements - somehow it still maintains a direct, almost commercial rockist and/or indie appeal throughout.
Very confident album this time, some added maturity, and despite the diversity this is consistent not ... read more
Decent experimental rock album. Instrumentation was great but wasn’t a fan of the vocals at points. Quite a fun project but one I’ll probably forget about quite soon
Not really a fan of most of the beats nor the vocals coming from the band, but the band sort of all made a decent sound on here.
Some of the noise in the mix of these tracks, like Structure, are just too much for me to enjoy, like really grating beeps and alarm sounds that some might say are "artsy" but I genuinely can't enjoy it. Out There was one of my favorites, the vocals were catchy and the guitar over a heavy bass made for a tune I had to bounce along too, it played with the conventional structure of a song while still being something I could follow. I actually was excited to listen to this, I saw the ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Structure 1:49 | 63 |
| 2 | Barley 3:29 | 78 |
| 3 | Out There 3:20 | 77 |
| 4 | Open 2:53 | 67 |
| 5 | Everyone's Crushed 4:01 | 65 |
| 6 | True Life 3:45 | 75 |
| 7 | Remember Not My Name 3:18 | 68 |
| 8 | 14 5:53 | 69 |
| 9 | Buy My Product 2:54 | 74 |
Total Length: 31 minutes
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me learning this album exists: 😐
me learning this album as female vocals: 🥵🥵😻😻😍😍😇😇💕🦆💕⚠️❤️🩷
me learning this album as female vocals: 🥵🥵😻😻😍😍😇😇💕🦆💕⚠️❤️🩷
Added on: February 28, 2023