The Sinclair became a haven for the unearthly last Wednesday night, Oct. 7, as the duo of Rachel Brown and Nate Amos brought their unique electronic alt-pop sound to Boston, leaving the audience stunned and hungry for more.

After distinctive opening sets by Her New Knife and Massachusetts’ own Editrix, Water From Your Eyes, accompanied by Al Nardo on guitar and Bailey Wollowitz on drums, took the stage at the packed Cambridge venue.

Brown and Amos joined forces in 2016 and have released seven studio albums together, most recently It's a Beautiful Place on Aug. 22. They mostly played songs from this album, much to the delight of the audience.

The band immediately jumped into “Born 2,” a shoegazy track from the new album that transports listeners into a supernatural world. As Brown sang “Born to know / The world is so cold / Yeah, born to become / Something else, something else,” the audience ascended into the band's alternate reality, where they would remain for the rest of the show.

The trippy animated background behind the band contributed to this psychedelic feeling, as many times I felt myself listening to the music, staring at the screen, and getting lost in the crowd as swirls of shapes, colors, and human bodies morphed into one another for the duration of the show.

“Life Signs,” with its flashy guitar riffs and addictive monotone vocals, was surely a crowd favorite. The track, the first single from It’s a Beautiful Place, is an intense audio experience that leaves listeners feeling liberated.

The lyrics read like poetry, and the transition into live performance did not disappoint. As Brown intoned “Cathedrals are built unbuilt rebuilt, unwavering guilt / Pools of rain heaven spilt, subject to tilt,” audience members bobbed their heads along, trying to comprehend what exactly was going through Brown's brain and coming out of their mouth.

The concert took place on the two year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel and the following genocide against the Palestinian people. Halfway through the show, Brown, who wore a black keffiyeh, addressed the anniversary to show support for Palestine.

“To feel so much time pass since we remember all of the graphic images and videos that I've seen over the last few years makes me so fucking angry that we're still watching these images come in, and we're still sending bombs, and we're sending money, when people here are suffering,” they said. “People are being taken from their families right now in our own country, so fuck ICE, fuck facism, free Palestine.”

With that statement, which drew a resounding applause from the audience, the band jumped straight into “True Life,” a song that expresses Brown and Amos’ cynical views of the material world we live in.

The highlight of the show were the last three tracks: “It’s a Beautiful Place,” “Blood on the Dollar,” and “Playing Classics.” These three songs are also coupled up on the album listing and make up one of the most exciting and satisfying trios I have ever heard—not only on an album, but even more so live.

“It’s a Beautiful Place” is a minute-long guitar solo by Amos, supported by Nardo, in which he expresses every emotion a guitar possibly can. Throughout the solo, his guitar gently weeped and then perfectly morphed into “Blood on the Dollar.”

“Blood on the Dollar” has a country sound to it, with subtle drums and fuzzy guitar. Amos’ enchanting guitar riffs, which called to mind the classic solo from the Pixies’ “Where is my Mind?,” evoking sways from the crowd and perfectly backed Brown’s mystifying vocals. As they sang, a welcomed sense of doom permeated the intimate venue.

As the show neared its inevitable end, the band jumped into “Playing Classics,” a track that is unlike any other. Partially inspired by Charli XCX’s “Club Classics,” the song perfectly encapsulates WFYE’s self-described genre: dance punk.

“The devil's playing classics, souls with something to lose / Take that long hard road from here to the truth,” Brown sang, and it seemed like they were in control of not only everyone in the crowd, but everything in the world.

The four-piece then briefly left the stage, but not for long. As they returned for an encore, “Track 5,” from their 2021 album Structure, the audience and I were relieved that it wasn't over quite yet.

As they wrapped up the song, I returned to Earth, shuffled out of the venue, and walked to the Red Line. I had to return to real life, but the world Water From Your Eyes created last Wednesday will live forever in my mind.

Water From Your Eyes turns The Sinclair into a Beautiful Place