A minor quirk of the music scene in NYC (and certain elsewhere too) is that everybody performs in everybody else’s band. Like Brooklyn musician Rachel Brown, who’s one-half of the rising duo Water From Your Eyes, but in addition nourishes their very own solo outfit referred to as thanks for coming. On the finish of this month, Brown can be releasing their newest solo EP referred to as What Is My Capability For Love. At the moment, they’re again with the second single from the album, “Limitless Love,” a careening guitar monitor about shedding love however discovering extra openness on the planet, constructed round their unfastened, stream-of-consciousness songwriting.
Brown wrote “Limitless Love” after coming again house from their first ever tour by way of Europe in mid 2022. They’d gone with their different band, Water From Your Eyes, and it was Brown’s first time ever leaving the nation. The sudden impression of latest experiences, individuals, and locations — mixed with recent new street bumps in a relationship — made Brown really feel a wierd diploma of freedom and untetheredness.
“It was very nice to have the ability to be in a second and actually be in it, and never have any recollections of it or understanding of what individuals had been even saying round me,” Brown tells NYLON. “It was really easy to be grateful at each second as a result of I had by no means had the prospect to see the world like that. All the things is so awe inspiring and typical on the identical time, it’s good to know that life is life all over the place you go. I felt a very common sense of affection, whereas on the identical time feeling actually heartbroken about such a small relationship in my life.”
That common sense of affection sparked “Limitless Love,” a track that ends with Brown chanting, “This life is infinite/ I’ve by no means identified a peace like this.” Per Brown, it’s one of many few positive-feeling songs they’ve written — “I felt hopeful about love, not that relationship, however love as an idea, as a technique to dwell, as a technique to join myself to the whole lot and everybody all over the place,” they add — and the aid and gratitude of their voice is palpable after they sing, even when it doesn’t final two minutes.
As a technique to full the story, Brown’s music video for the track options self-shot footage from that tour by way of Europe, with pictures of them grinning whereas driving, grabbing baggage from the airport carousel, peering out the aircraft window, watching lengthy grass ripple within the wind: a celebration of life wherever you discover it.
Watch “Limitless Love” under, and skim on for a dialog with Brown in regards to the upcoming EP, dying vegetation, and listening to CDs of their automobile. Be sure you catch What Is My Capability For Love, out Sept. 29.
What are you as much as proper now — describe your environment.
I’m in my bed room in Mattress Stuy and it’s simply previous 2 a.m. and I needs to be sleeping. I simply cleaned up as we speak so the whole lot is trying quite a bit higher than it has since I obtained house per week or two in the past when it was all piles sprawling throughout my ground. I’m typing in my mattress which is roofed in a pink floral comforter that used to belong to my grandma. I’ve a giant fiddle leaf fig plant by my window and a smaller rubber tree plant subsequent to it—at the least I feel that’s what it’s referred to as. I even have a spider plant that’s dying over by my desk. It’s unhappy to see one thing that was as soon as so vigorous all keeled over like that. Makes you marvel what went mistaken? How did I fail to do my a part of maintaining it alive and properly?
In any case, the whole lot is simply sitting in a semi-permanent place that has develop into its house and I barely even discover any of it anymore as a result of these are simply the issues that exist right here the entire time. Though, I assume it’s really very nice to have my belongings and to have my room the place these issues belong. I miss it quite a bit after I’m on the street. It’s actually the one place in the entire world that is type of only for me.
Your EP known as What’s My Capability To Love? What did you find out about your self and love whereas making it?
I’m actually loopy, like I’m delusional at greatest. I really feel intensely and I make selections based mostly on that, even regardless of understanding in any other case at a logical stage. I bounce into issues, they usually nearly at all times occur to suit proper into my patterns of dangerous habits. I feel I count on quite a bit from individuals, even after I say I don’t, even after I don’t need to. I feel that I would like my depth to be matched, it’s type of all or nothing for me. These are all issues I’ve identified, issues I didn’t need to admit, issues I assumed wouldn’t matter if I might simply meet the fitting individual and have the fitting relationship. I’m a really affordable individual in most points however not in terms of love and want. I’m deeply insecure and I can’t talk the best way that I need to—so it’s not straightforward to like me or be liked by me. To some extent I’ve at all times identified that, and now I’ve admitted it and acknowledged my capability to harm and be damage by another person, I’m attempting to be extra light with issues of the center.
What’s your earliest music-related reminiscence?
I went to Catholic college for eleven years from after I was three to 14. There was a number of singing concerned and I keep in mind in preschool we had been singing “This Little Mild of Mine” and we had been doing somewhat dance with our palms throughout it. We’d cowl our thumb or one thing with our different hand after which uncover it in the course of the half the place it’s “I’m gonna let it shine.” That’s in all probability my earliest reminiscence of singing, however I can also’t actually keep in mind not singing alongside to the radio, particularly with the CDs that my dad and mom would play repeatedly. There was at all times music taking part in in the home and within the automobile. I nonetheless take heed to America’s Best Hits the entire time as a result of that was my favourite CD of theirs, I even obtained my very own CD of it for my automobile.
What is the final album you performed in full and actually loved, and why did you prefer it?
I obtained After the Gold Rush by Neil Younger on CD and I play it in my automobile the entire time. I’ve reached some extent the place it lives within the CD participant and I don’t even cease it anymore, it simply performs entrance to again time and again, all the time I’m within the automobile. It’s an ideal album, each single track is high notch, simply actually impeccable songwriting. It’s onerous to put in writing an ideal track, a lot much less an ideal album, however Neil Younger managed to do it for my part.
