You're Not Crying, I'm Crying
Water From Your Eyes Emulsified
Water From Your Eyes officially kicked off their early 2024 US tour on February 1st but they played at Duke’s Coffee House aka Chaus in Durham, NC the night before that. Their 2023 album, Everyone’s Crushed, is a kaleidoscopic amalgam of sound. Dizzyingly hypnotic, the record can resemble a chamber pop group gone trap music here, a noise band disassembling trip hop there.
I thought I knew what to expect based off the album spending a good half a year seeping into my consciousness. Live, core members Nate Amos and Rachel Brown are assisted Al Nardo on guitar and drummer Bailey Wollowitz, making their odd trances their music casts extra ardent. Jarring loops, guitars slashes and swirls, beats sometimes bumpy but always barreling head down and straight on. Frayed nerves and fluffy clouds.
It was my first time checking out a show at Chaus and was not familiar with the room so I grabbed the same rig I had been using, the Canon AE1 regular readers have seen photos from in previous installments. It’s been one of my main go to cameras for a looong time. It has started developing some shutter capping issue so it has been stashed away until I have time to attend to that. There are many projects of all sorts ahead of it, and yeah, I’ve got cameras that need to be taken out into the world more often anyway. The flash is that K-Mart knockoff Sunpak I have written about before as well. I think my little experiment with it is done for now. I’ve had a “use flash as little as possible” credo for years but have been trying to challenge my comfort zones again. I’ll still be messing with flash, just not this unit in these situations.
Color film: Kodak Ultramax 400 pushed on stop
Black and white film: Kodak TMax 400 pushed one stop.
