"As one half of Brooklyn-based duo Water From Your Eyes, Nate Amos makes left-field pop that feels hypermodern: wry, memey lyricism; post-ironic genre-hopping; the kind of jilted chaos and tonal jumble that characterises a social media feed. Yet the band had actually been plugging away for seven years before their 2023 breakthrough. Amos's solo project This Is Lorelei has been going even longer, only gaining proper traction with last year's belated debut album Box for Buddy, Box for Star."
"Unlike his WFYE output, these tracks are mainly gentle folk-rock numbers that deal in honeyed melancholy. They tend to be brief and narratively vague, glancing at regret, disappointment and darkness (you don't want to know what my dreams are about, he claims on But You Just Woke Me Up). His most obvious stylistic counterpart is indie-rocker Alex G, but while Amos can't rival him for lyrical punch,"
Nate Amos performs in Brooklyn-based duo Water From Your Eyes and produces a long-running solo project under This Is Lorelei. The This Is Lorelei compilation Holo Boy Now Amos collects re-recorded songs from an extensive Bandcamp back catalogue. The songs lean toward gentle folk-rock, featuring honeyed melancholy, brevity, and narratively vague lyrics that glimpse regret, disappointment and darkness. Stylistically the work recalls indie-rocker Alex G in its diverting details, though it lacks comparable lyrical punch. The collection includes an outlier, Mouth Man, that channels eclectic sprechgesang and synth blasts. The compilation offers sweet-sad acoustic fare that feels enjoyable despite its opportunistic repackaging.
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