NATE AMOS

The Brooklyn-based musician stops by to tell us what he's been into.

July 17, 2025

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Nate Amos is a Brooklyn-based musician you might remember from his earlier Perfectly Imperfect appearance alongside Rachel Brown as their band Water From Your Eyes. He also releases solo music under the name This is Lorelei – his acclaimed album Box for Buddy, Box for Star came out last year, with the deluxe version released this past spring. He’s got some exciting things on the horizon: you can catch This is Lorelei at our show at Knockdown Center this Saturday, July 19, where he’ll be sharing the stage with Greg Freeman, Dirt Buyer, and feardorian. Water From Your Eyes fans can look forward to their upcoming record, It’s a Beautiful Place, and check out their latest single, “Playing Classics,” in the meantime. Lucky for us, Nate’s here to tell us what he’s been into.

WHAT Nate Amos IS INTO...

Ask

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What’s the funkiest sport I can get into seeing in person coming from Brooklyn?

Doesn’t have to be pro, I’m down to take the train to some minor league games. Please and thank you bless you

@nate-amos

6d ago

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wearing a watch so you don’t have to look at your phone to know what time it is

I would love to get rid of my phone entirely but it doesn’t really feel like an option right now. I try to look at it as little as possible but my sense of time ranges from just accurate enough that I feel confident about it to so wildly inaccurate that I feel like I have to check up on it constantly if I have anything important to do on a given day. As a result I end up spending all day accessible and on social media when all I really want is to not be bothered or subjected to the algorithm. Lorelei was taking the EU to UK ferry earlier this summer and there were mad duty free watches - I realized I should just get one so I was like hey should I buy this watch and the love of my life Al was like you should do research and buy one you want at home instead of impulse buying some random watch on a boat and that was definitely the right call. I bought a weird box of shortbread with King Charles on it for my roommate instead. When I got home I bought a cheap casio watch and it honestly is the best - I always know what time it is and I think I cut my phone time in half.

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🥤

drinking espresso and tonic

Water From Your Eyes was in Mexico city and we were at this dope little record shop for a signing and there was a coffee pop up inside that night. I asked what they recommended and they made me this espresso and tonic which was a totally new thing for me, I had no idea you could do that. I’ve always really fucked with tonic water - when I was still drinking one of my ride or die bevs was “the gentlemen’s weekend” which is essentially just a super dirty gin and tonic with mad olives - I miss that shit every day so realizing you could do espresso and tonic was a woahhh moment for sure. Any coffee shop I go to where I can get one I will hop right on it, honestly my fave way to drink caffeine at the moment. I’m not really a coffee shop person though so I usually just get white monster from the deli and that gets the job done.

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🌕

hollow moon lore etc.

I’m casually big into space conspiracy / fringe science stuff (I don’t know anything I just love good lore) - Goddamn the moon is crazy. That shit rings like a bell anytime we crash anything into it. The craters on it are all of relatively uniform depth regardless of diameter. The dust on the surface is older than the rock underneath. It regulates the tides and seasons. It’s placed perfectly so we can experience eclipses - the probability of that being the case is so so so low - there’s no other moon/planet relationship we know of where that’s the case. There’s plenty of mythology that references times before the moon when weather patterns were unstable and a source of constant chaos. Some say it was put there to help stabilize the planet so we could continue to evolve ;) again I do not know jack shit about how anything actually works but mannnn is there some quality moon lore out there to dive into, cool af that something with such a huge effect on our lives is such a mystery, endless fun rabbit holes.

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👴🏻

watching videos of old men building things out of wood and talking about it

I swear to god nothing will brute force me into relaxation faster than watching some youtube video of an old man building something in his garage that he’s built 100 times before. I don’t care if it’s a chair or a guitar or if he’s whittling. I have always been so bad at making things with my hands so maybe that’s part of the appeal but listening to someone ramble/reminisce/explain in an experienced and informed way about their craft while making something beautiful gets my immediate focus every time. They don’t have to be men but they do have to be old and it helps if they seem like they would be mad grumpy if they weren’t thoroughly disarmed by their passion for creation.

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🛻

going to monster jam

I grew up spending a lot of time at bluegrass festivals and I remember being like 8 years old at some fairground in Indiana and throwing a baseball around with this kid who eventually invited me back to his RV to watch a monster truck rally on this tiny TV with rabbit ears. It was so so sick but for whatever reason I never really realized that I could just go to one in real life until recently when I saw an ad for Monster Jam at Barclays Center. Went with Al and it was high-key the sickest thing I’ve ever seen in an arena. Grave Digger flipped over and caught on fire and we ate snow cones. Two of the drivers were a father and son, the son won the whole night. I followed all 8 drivers on instagram the second I got home. Security confiscated a lighter I’d managed to not lose for like 6 months which was a drag but 100% worth it. I wish I’d bought more merch.

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