At the top of February, Water From Your Eyes introduced a brand new album, Everyone’s Crushed, their first for Matador Records. They shared “Barley” from it on the time, which landed on our greatest songs of the week listing, and right now they’re again with the album’s second single, the chugging and deformed “True Life.”
“‘True Life’ is our Neil Young-inspired quasi-nu metal stomp. It is also intended to be our ‘Short Skirt / Long Jacket,’” the pair stated in an announcement. “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. The rest of the song deals with life and assorted complications of the material world.”
Check it out beneath.
Everyone’s Crushed is out 5/26. Pre-order it right here.