thanks for coming is the songwriting project of Rachel Brown (they/them), one half of the duo Water From Your Eyes. Brown started recording music alone in Chicago during high school (their first Bandcamp release bears the description “I wrote these songs instead of doing homework”), initially keeping those early songs a secret.

Today, Brown is announcing a new thanks for coming EP entitled What Is My Capacity To Love?, and sharing a new single entitled “Loop,” which arrives ahead of the EP’s release on Danger Collective on September 29th.

On their new EP, Brown attempts to pick apart the push and pull patterns that they have watched themself repeat in their romantic relationships. Written largely in the immediate aftermath of a breakup, the EP traces “the minor tragedy that played out with that relationship,” marking the stations along a path Brown sets out on “Loop,” which was before the relationship ended.

“I wrote this song before most of the EP, and it’s funny because it predicted everything that ended up happening with this person I was involved with,” Brown explains. “A lot of the EP is sort of in the aftermath of the minor tragedy that played out with that relationship, but this song is the only one about it from before anything had even happened. I knew it wasn’t going to end well and I still just ran towards it as if there weren’t going to be consequences. I think more than anything, this song, this EP, even that relationship was less about the specific thing and more about the pattern of my behaviors. I was in this cycle of infatuation, disappointment, seeking out intimacy but never actually letting anyone in, etc. I found myself in the exact same situation I was always finding myself in and I kept telling myself that it was going to be different even though I hadn’t changed at all. Listening to it now, I just can’t help but think how right I was about it all, and how it would’ve been nice to be wrong. But everything happens for a reason, I’d like to think I finally got out of the loop.”

To celebrate the release thanks for coming will be playing a NYC release show at Sundown in Ridgewood on October 5th.

What Is My Capacity To Love Tracklist

1. Let It Be 10,000 Years (or Just 0.01 Cm From Each Other)
2. Unlimited Love
3. Loop
4. Try Again
5. Depends
6. Postcard
7. Melted
8. Spotless Mind

Stream “Loop” HERE