| "Life Signs" | ||||
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| Single by Water from Your Eyes | ||||
| from the album It's a Beautiful Place | ||||
| Released | June 4, 2025 | |||
| Recorded | 2025 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 4:32 | |||
| Label | Matador | |||
| Producer(s) | Nate Amos | |||
| Water from Your Eyes singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Life Signs" on YouTube | ||||
"Life Signs" is a song by American indie pop band Water from Your Eyes from their seventh studio album, It's a Beautiful Place (2025). Matador Records released it on June 4, 2025, as the album's lead single. It was written by Nate Amos and Rachel Brown of Water from Your Eyes alongside audio engineer Howie Weinberg.
In an interview with Nylon Amos would say "The guitar part in 'Life Signs' started as a 24-note quarter-tone series generated by a random number generator." [1]
According to Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone, Life Signs finds Water from Your Eyes delving into the crunchy riffage of late-90s, early-Y2k alt-rock, however not without sacrificing the "avant-garde" twists and turns that are a hallmark of [their] output. [2] Alison Ross of PopMatters would classify Life Signs' genre as hard rock which suddenly switches to dream pop. [3] Amelie Grice of Clash would write about the song saying it "starts with a fast-paced, dry but stylish urgency which later erupts into a more typical Water From Your Eyes overflowing, energetic and enjoyably over-stimulating style." [4] Pitchfork's Holden Seidlitz would say the song is "filled with unresolved tension" and "operates like language poetry, preserving the band’s freneticism and oddity in doomscroll onomatopoeia." [5] Joseph Mastel of Spill Magazine would comment on the "deadpan spoken word vocal style" displayed by Rachel Brown. [6]
The official music video for "Life Signs" was released alongside the song on June 4, 2025. It was directed by Rachel Brown. [7] The video takes place in television. As described by Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone, it finds the duo "trapped in an endless loop of television as both participants in and insatiable viewers of a barrage of shows and commercials." [2]