This Is Lorelei

This Is Lorelei energizes all lo-fi indie hearts in Little VEGA

One half of the genre-twisting band Water From Your Eyes has just sent his new album The Singer in My Band onto the streets. The album is an organic, eclectic and fascinating work created on the country roads in the midst of an international breakthrough.

Because over the past few years Nate Amos has crawled from the lo-fi underground onto the big international stages. The basement experiments of Chicago's creative underground milieu have turned into a potent and ear-catching elixir that makes reviewers and listeners alike devotedly plunge into the arms of the songwriter.

It was with the release of Box for Buddy, Box for Star from 2024 that Amos nailed his name firmly with the seven-inch stitch in earnest. The album was highly praised by leading music media outlets such as Pitchfork, Stereogum and Paste Magazine. The latter wrote, among other things:

“With Box For Buddy, Box For Star, Amos unlocks the key to his creative potential, drawing from the archive of great American sounds and songwriting and filtering what he discovers through his special, singular lens.”

With The Singer in My Band, Nate Amos takes the foundation stones of The Great American Songbook and screws them together anew in his quirky and uncompromising indie pop universe.

The album bears the imprint of Nate Amos' deep roots in the American bluegrass tradition. The album's title track even features a jaw-dropping banjo solo delivered by his father, bluegrass musician Bob Amos. The songs have been created in a passenger seat while Amos traveled thousands of miles on the lengthy U.S. tours. About the process, he tells in the press release:

“Instead of being home and writing on the guitar or a computer, they developed slowly and subconsciously, existing as a sort of intangible thing while looking out the window.”

The listener is taken on a wondrous and bumpy drive through the changing landscapes of the United States - like a modern beatnik novel set to music.