It’s A Beautiful Place, the new full-length from Water From Your Eyes out August 22, opens with zero-gravity instrumental ‘One Small Step’ – a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for the New York duo. 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 everything’s just a tiny blip.”

First single ‘Life Signs’ lands today with a video directed by the band’s Rachel Brown. The towering and muscular track awakens with a nu-metal backbeat and a rhythmic vocal deadpan which takes a hard pivot into a signature WFYE chorus – cascading and celestial. The video features the duo as a rotating cast of television characters as well as a version of themselves watching it all play out on screen throughout the course of a lifetime.

“Television has always been my biggest passion,” says Brown, “and this video was mostly conceived from my desire to experiment with the tropes of genre. But I also think the medium lends itself to the idea of fitting an infinite amount of universes into a little box you can keep in your living room. I wanted the video to encapsulate as many worlds as the song does and to express an entire lifetime within a short few minutes.”

It’s A Beautiful Place:

1. One Small Step
2. Life Signs
3. Nights in Armor
4. Born 2
5. You Don’t Believe in God?
6. Spaceship
7. Playing Classics
8. It’s a Beautiful Place
9. Blood on the Dollar
10. For Mankind