Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

NEW VINYL LP ON SUB POP 2019

180 GRAM VINYL.
The phantom zone, the parallax, the upside down—there is a rich cultural history of exploring in-between places. Through her latest, Titanic Rising, Weyes Blood (a.k.a. Natalie Mering) has, too, designed her own universe to soulfully navigate life’s mysteries. Maneuvering through a space-time continuum, she intriguingly plays the role of melodic, sometimes melancholic, anthropologist. Tellingly, Mering classifies Titanic Rising as the Kinks meet WWII or Bob Seger meets Enya. The latter captures the album’s willful expansiveness (“You can tell there’s not a guy pulling the strings in Enya’s studio,” she notes, admiringly). The former relays her imperative to connect with listeners. “The clarity of Bob Seger is unmistakable. I’m a big fan of conversational songwriting,” she adds. “I just try to do that in a way that uses abstract imagery as well.”

Tracklist

A1 A Lot's Gonna Change
A2 Andromeda
A3 Everyday
A4 Something To Believe
A5 Titanic Rising
B1 Movies
B2 Mirror Fever
B3 Wild Time
B4 Picture Me Better
B5 Nearer To Thee