Water From Your Eyes run for cover(s)

thefader.com:

Water 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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