Nate Amos

On this week's episode, we've got a songwriting and production wizard who's having a big moment in conversation with a legend that he considers a huge influence.

It's Nate Amos and Bruce Hornsby.

Now, Nate Amos may have caught your attention in the past few years with Water From Your Eyes, a duo he started about 10 years ago with vocalist Rachel Brown.

Together, they've released a bunch of tough-to-categorize records.

One minute you're singing along with an arty pop song, the next you're on an unexpected noisy tangent.

Simple and vibey.

All right.

I have two Nate Amos.

It's hard to pinpoint it, but I just love her sound.

This is Lorelei's new album, Singer in the Band.

I love the song, especially Watching Heaven Fall.

Love that song.

And at this point, what are some things that you're looking forward to doing and what other avenues do you want to explore in your music?

Whatever I listen to is going to come out.

Like I said, I've been listening to This Is Lorelei and Wednesday and MJ Linderman.

So there's going to be a little bit more lap steel coming up.

That's me.

Today we are joined by Nate Amos, Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, believer in aliens, who records...

Solo, as This Is Lorelai, and is also one half of the experimental pop group Water From Your Eyes, both of which he produces and plays most, if not all, the instruments in.

He started This Is Lorelai in Chicago in the DIY scene, spent about a decade prolifically self-releasing music before his 2024 breakthrough album, Box for Buddy, Box for Star.

Genre bender.

musical madman, singer in his band.

Welcome to Overdubbed, Nate Amos.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, I was at this really cool indie

church with This Is Lorelei the other day.

That's cool.

They often have many concerts in churches.

This, quite surprisingly, is not.

The case with This Is Lorelei.

On the contrary, Amos has crafted one of the best rock albums I've heard all year, the singer in my band.

Turns out Amos is a gifted singer-songwriter in the early 70s and also mid-90s indie rock tradition.

Yeah, his partner is the touring bassist for Water From Your Eyes.

Oh, okay.

So anyway, yeah, definitely check out This Is Lorelei's The Singer In My Band, as well as Amos' two other albums under his pen name, 2024's Box For Buddy, Box For Star, and 2025's Hollow Boy.

Turns out the dude behind all the noise and the frenetic action and pomposity of Water From Your Eyes has a tender, tender heart.

now 17 she gets tired whoa every time you leave now you fucks up just a little bit but you can't talk if it's a man lay your cards on the table

My second album comes from This Is Lorelei and is called The Singer of My Band.

I suspect many rocking the subway listeners know of This Is Lorelei, but in case not, it's the moniker for Nate Amos.

He's a prolific artist who is also the driving force behind Water In Your Eyes.

A lot of my favorite artists, such as Waxahachie, Jeff Tweedy, MJ Letterman, and Mama are huge fans.

And this is Lorelei's last album, Box for Buddy, Box for Star, was reissued earlier this year with a second disc of covers from some of these very artists.

I suggest playing Oh No, Now My.

Oh no, now my Oh no, now my you're a coach

That is a little bit of the song, Oh No, Now My, by This Is Lorelei, the new album, the singer in my band.

Nate Amos grew up in Virginia and in Vermont, which is talked about a lot.

But did Time in Chicago.

I never met him.

That is Billy Came Back from This Is Lorelei.

The new album is The Singer in My Band.

The Singer in My Band happens to be Nate Amos.

Yes.

So they're going to be playing.

But let me introduce the guys.

So this is mostly about men.

And this is one of my favorite men.

So, it sets you on this sort of quest to try to identify or try to figure out what's going on with men.

And that feels like a little provocative because we're told… that, I don't know, that that's not a very serious topic to discuss, I guess, or that that gets reflected back as like the manosphere, the men's rights, like all these negative things.

But we should be, you and I, as kind of like progressive guys, should also be able to talk about how there is a sort of loss of meaning going on for a lot of guys, purpose.

Yeah.