Water From Your Eyes – It’s A Beautiful Place (Matador) – Well back before the album was due for release we wrote “more from the new album that’s sounding rather good so far. Playing Classics is the second single from Water From Your Eyes’ forthcoming album It’s A Beautiful Place, out August 22nd on Matador Records. The track finds duo Nate Amos and Rachel Brown building on the the colour of the previous taste with this second bite of the forthcoming album. hear both tracks let loose so far on their Bandcamp that’s down there under the video…”

And that cup of tea over there has stewed and the whole album is finally being played and the rain is falling here in London as the band from Brooklyn, New York do their thing and it feels like the end of the summer and it is a couple of weeks after the release and already old news amd what with the price of time and well… Well the album is playing in here and is there any point in any of this Organ thing we ask ourselves? Playing Classics just made me stop and check which track I was listening to while drinking this cold tea and tring to throw paint, that is a stand out track, and Blood On The Dollar does hint at something more than something that sounds kind of nice and Life Signs moves so well, it does take ears to beautiful places, a natural position.

There’s something about Water From The Eyes that is delightful but then that makes them sound a little throwaway when they’re far from that (and those riffs can bite when they need to and…) and now they’ve made the London sun come out and maybe Summer isn’t over and Spaceship does rather land in the middle of the album and throw one of the many curveballs that like to throw, the two of them are good at throwing very creative curveballs and slightly different colours and does some of it sound like Beck? Probably not? Ah we’re back to Playing Classics again, that one grabs soemthing every time. It is a beautiful place, that title track especially and it the way it takes to Blood On The Dollar and I’m rambling here. I really really like this album. I guess they expend the line up for live things? I guess I should read the press releases properly? I guess you’re not that bothered and if you ahve spent any time of this page it was just to watch the YouTubes and cut to the Bandcamp and who can blame you, who needs album reviews or any of this? I’m off to make a fresh cup of tea…

www.waterfromyoureyes.com / Bandcamp

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Slow Crush – Thirst (Pure Noise Records) – Belgium’s rather lushly dramatic Slow Crush kind of sound like their name, big dramatic sweeps of classic 90s shoegaze grandness that, even though we may have heard most of what they do quite a few times before, does work rather well and does feel like it wants to slowly crush you once it has quietly invited you in. That rather compelling female voiced cocktail of Cocteau Twins, Chapterhouse, Lush, Slowdive thing undercutting a sometimes slightly abrasive, grungy, almost metallic noise that is ambitiously big. It does kind of crush, or slowly encase, a sound that wants to wrap around you, those drums add a sense of power that is wanting to take you to the extremes and play with noise in a very colourful way, their contrasts work rather well, it is very (very) full bodied and there’s the soft floating voice of Isa Holliday not quite over the top of it all as much as in the middle of a dense sound that takes time to reveal the heavier undercurrents that aren’t always mere undercurrents. Their cocktail is is a good one…

Bandcamp / www.slowcrush.org / Linktree

Pôt-Pot – Warsaw 480km (Felte) – Irish Portuguese-based quintet pôt-pot have a debut album that come infused with a kind of laid-back propulsive groove that moves in an easy-going krautrock kind of way, an easygoing psych-rock underscored by a warm set of harmonium drones, an all-the-time-in-the-world male-female vocal harmonies, layers of almost lo-fi texture. Brian Jonestown Massacre without the unpleasant undertones that dog the BJM. There’s an easy-going transient jam feel to some of it, understated, yes, a deliberate economy, warm, positive…

Bandcamp