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Water From Your Eyes - Everyone's Crushed
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<< INFO >>
Artist...... Water From Your Eyes
Album....... Everyone's Crushed
Label....... Matador
Genre....... Indie
Date........ 2023-05-26
Release..... 2024-09-21
Bitrate..... 258kbps
Size........ 60.91 mb
Duration.... 31:22
WWW......... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_from_Your_Eyes
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<< TRACKS >>
01 Structure [ 1:49]
02 Barley [ 3:29]
03 Out There [ 3:20]
04 Open [ 2:53]
05 Everyone's Crushed [ 4:01]
06 True Life [ 3:45]
07 Remember Not My Name [ 3:18]
08 14 [ 5:53]
09 Buy My Product [ 2:54]
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<< NOTES >>
Everyone's Crushed is a 2023 studio album by American indie pop band Water
from Your Eyes. Their debut on Matador Records, the album has received
positive reviews from critics.
Editors at AnyDecentMusic? rate this release an 8.1 out of 10, based on 14
scores. According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Everyone's Crushed
received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 84 out of
100 from 14 critic scores.
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Heather
Phares writing the band "level[s] up their genre-mashing sound" with each new
album and sums up that this release is their "most consistently gripping
music, the cohesion of Everyone's Crushed lends a new vantage point to their
musicùand it's an exciting one". In Exclaim!, Tom Piekarski rated Everyone's
Crushed an 8 out of 10, writing that it has "inescapable charm" and "there
isn't a single moment on Everyone's Crushed that isn't crafted to
perfection". In The Guardian's 4-out-of-5 star review, Alexis Petridis writes
that the band has been able to refine their sound over the past several
albums to produce "the only recent album that sounds the way it does". Joshua
Mills of The Line of Best Fit exhorts listeners that this album "demands
close attention" writing that the band's vulnerability and lyrics "keep us at
arm's length, but eager to burrow deep and discover everything this album has
to offer". In Paste, Grant Sharples rated this work an 8.3 out of 10 and
discussed the band's evolving genres and the chemistry between the two band
members, calling them "one of the most innovative, exciting creative
partnerships of the moment".
Another 8.3 out of 10 came from Cat Zhang of Pitchfork, where this album was
chosen as Best New Music of the week and the reviewer writes that the "music
sounds awesome" with "its livewire sound". Marc Hogan at that site also chose
alternative Grammy Award nominees and proposed "Barley" for Grammy Award for
Record of the Year and the band for Grammy Award for Best New Artist. A 9 out
of 10 came from Christopher J. Lee of PopMatters who praised the band for
being "inescapably singular" and for the group's high musicianship and
ability to experiment. Rolling Stone's editors gave this release the "Hear
This" label to highlight it and critic Kory Grow writes that the "chaos" in
the band's experimentation "frequently works in the duo's favor". In The
Skinny, Tony Inglis gave this work 4 out of 5 stars, stating that "it's
pleasingly hard to decipher if the band are at any point saying anything with
any sincerity" in a "panoply of wrongfooting sounds". At Stereogum, this was
the Album of the Week and reviewer James Rettig wrote that this release digs
"more into the abstract side of their sound" than previous albums. In a June
round-up of the best albums of 2023, the publication placed this at 14, with
Chris DeVille characterizing it as "somewhere between cyberpunk and
indie-pop, held together by Brown's bewildered humanity amidst the clatter".
Mark Moody of Under the Radar considers Eveyrone's Crushed "the summer
soundtrack for those that hate summery soundtracks" and Water from Your Eyes
"one of the most interesting acts in music these days"; he rates this album
an 8 out of 10.
In June 2023, Alternative Press published an unranked list of the top 25
albums of the year to date and included this release, calling it "an
impeccable balance between leaning into their absurdist sense of humor while
creating music that is not only easy to take seriously but is even easier to
fall in love with". Editors of Vogue included this in an unranked list of the
22 best albums of the year, published on October 23, 2023, with critic Laia
Garcia-Furtado stating that the album is made up of "perfectly messed-up pop
music that veersùsometimes sweetly, sometimes violentlyùfrom the angelic
melodies... to... chaotic beats... and lyrics that reflect modern life's
signature disjointedness".
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