‘It’s A Beautiful Place’ opens with zero-gravity instrumental One Small Step a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for New York duo Water From Your Eyes. The album is a gleaming megalopolis, a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness. It ended up being about time, dinosaurs and space, says Nate Amos. We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everythings just a tiny blip.

The duo recorded the bulk of ‘Its A Beautiful Place’ last summer, just as they have every other WFYE release: in Amoss bedroom. But this time, much of the writing and recording were shaped around the dynamics of a full-blooded live group: When youre playing with a band you tend to write with one in mind – this was the first time I wrote anything imagining us playing anywhere bigger than a basement, he observes.

Throughout the album is a clear sense of a band who have honed their curveballs into home runs. Looming and melancholy, wide-eyed and petrified, it’s Blade Runner meets WALL-E, it’s Kubrick and Asimov with a hint of Jay and Silent Bob. These are songs that look outward, conscious of our smallness and questioning our place in the universe while admiring the surrounding beauty.