Water From Your Eyes is releasing their new album Everyone's Crushed on May 26 via Matador. They've already released the tireless hit "Barley," and today they return with another single that's even more restless called "True Life." Nate Amos' guitars sound like enraged goose squawks and Rachel Brown's vocals are both unbothered and cooly transfixing as the track's rising tension plays out like a game of chicken.
“‘True Life’ is our Neil Young–inspired, quasi-nu-metal stomp,” the band noted. “It is also intended to be our ‘Short Skirt/Long Jacket.’ The bridge was initially meant to contain lyrics from ‘Cinnamon Girl,’ but Neil Young’s lawyers wouldn’t let us use them. Now they are about how Neil Young wouldn’t let us use his words.” Hence the song's mounting frustration.
Listen to "True Life" below, and pre-order Everyone's Crushed here.
