Weyes Blood

AOTY

seriously beautiful record, so excited to get deeper into it

yeah I mean

knock yourself out, ilx

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497534567/first-listen-weyes-blood-front-row-seat-to-earth

http://www.thebeatjuice.com/trax/2016/10/13/18279/premiere-stream-the-gorgeous-new-weyes-blood-album-front-row-seat-to-earth/

Stunning record.

first impression: Seven Words is the best song on this, right? album seems very good, though every song's kinda the same with the trembly organ chords held for a loooong time... very nice sound but i miss some of the more peppy ramshackle buffy-st marie folky stuff like 'hang on'. maybe i'm in a bit of a glum mood and it's not helping

I put some we yes blood on last night when my gf's sister and her partner were over for dinner, and at one point when we were returning to the living room from the balcony for a cigarette, i paused and listened closely to catch the melody, and had to wait like 16 bars before I could make any sense of it! and this was the previous album which I've listened to dozens of times! the way the songs are written, with many cycling parts imperfectly overlapping, each cycle very long, it's easy to follow along if you come in at the beginning and follow along, but I really blown away by how difficult it was to reconstruct fro, within.

Do You Need My Love playing softly over the PA at a matinee im at rn

NOt heard the name pronounced so far, but I take it it's as in Flannery O'Connor/Foetus isn't it?

Have been impressed by what i've heard so far. So probably need to pick a few things up.

Wise Blood was also one of John Huston's last films starring Brad Dourif.

Flopson is otm here - "Seven Words" stands out. This record is a gorgeous homogenous slice of beauty with very few peaks and valleys. I completely relate to the themes of reconciliation and resignation, but this feels more like music to dwell in that than fight it.

New album is beautiful! First time hearing them and I think I'm in love.

It is a very impressive record, kinda unique? It's got a lot of rooted folky soul but also melodrama, but also moods that remind me of Enya... really not sure where to place it, but I like it

oh yeah, reminds me of Kate Bush and Shearwater too - the theatricality

best song is "Do You Need My Love"

i'm hearing that song EVERYWHERE out and about at all the same places that played Courtney Barnett's "Depreston" a year ago

movie theaters, cabs, restaurants, public PA's i can't place

so who's going to the gig tonight

btw this album is proper incredible like

In truth this album destabilizes me. I can relate to these lyrics on such a level that it's a sublime. It's a beautiful album.

Nice video here:

http://pitchfork.com/tv/51-live/1908-weyes-blood-perform-do-you-need-my-love-in-a-haunting-session/

She was amazing live, really amazing, and her band were perfect. Launched into a Soft Machine cover as the encore too. Hackney didn't really know what to make of her, which was a shame.

kinda dry production on that live session video, feels a bit lifeless

would love to see her live though

Ariel Pink/Weyes Blood collaborative EP out at the end of this month.

was inititally turned off by the ariel pink associations & first listen didn't grab me but this has really gotten its hooks in me....quite a beautiful album

not stylistically (not much jazz or r&b in this), but there's some spirit here some sadness that reminds me of laura nyro

a conversation w/ WB & john cale just appeared in my twitter feed:

http://www.vogue.com/13520883/john-cale-weyes-blood-interview/

i really hate to be that guy but i've listened to tears on fire a couple of times and it just makes me want AP to get back to his 'roots'.

I can't find much to dislike

Is the full EP out there? I've listened to Tears on Fire nonstop for the last couple of days. It's very addictive.

It's out and it's good. In fact I prefer some of it to her last album, which was mostly quite down-trodden but beautiful nonetheless. Especially like the callback to Shangri-Las girl group narration on the second track.

Saw them live in SF for Noise Pop. Good god is Natalie Mering's voice is incredible. Well worth checking out if they're nearby.

Yeah she strikes me as the real thing

I love their new record. Are the older ones good too?

Are "they" a band now? When I saw Weyes Blood it was just Mering backed by tapes.

they're a really good band, soft machine covers and all (and yeah when I saw 'them' first it was just her)

It was Nilsson covers when I saw her.

maybe it was just a special treat for her british audience

For lack of a better term she's a part of the A Pink "family" in LA. Shares 5hags with Pink's touring band. Video directed by Pink's girlfriend. Etc

Sorry for staring the obvious. Just trying and failing to make the point that she's the band. Like No Joy is Jasmine's, Lansing Dreiden is Jorge's and so on.

The further back you go, the noisier her music gets, and the melodies turn medieval. The Outside Room is excellent in a very different way - more like Marissa Nadler collaborating with Demdike Stare.

Oh wow... OK that sounds interesting.

I meant to type "her" above. There is no band

excellent new single

i segued into it right in the middle of the new susanne sundfor album and tt didn't even notice, they've converged somewhat lol

what's the new one called? It's passed me by completely

'a certain kind'

good 'everybody's talkin'' cover on the b-side too. releasing singles with b-sides in 2017 is a cool move and i endorse it

Oh cool, she's been playing "Everybody's Talkin" at live shows for a few years now

still absolutely can't fucking believe brainwashed.com readers voted FRSTE the second-WORST album of last year. proper fucking neckbeard shit

maybe weyes blood triggers sensitive swansbro morons particularly effectively

gira sucks

was she particularly vocal in larkin's corner

or are these people simply threatened by a woman daring to write psych-pop

God Turn Me Into A Flower is the best thing I’ve heard in years, holy shit. Thrilled to discover she’s playing Manchester next Spring too.

This has really grown on me.

Each record is taking more effort to grow on me. I love the craft, but miss the obliqueness. I'm holding out hope for her incorporating her origins at some point, and creating the Karen-Carpenter-Sings-Desertshore album I dream about.

This new one is too samey lyrically and musically compared to the prescience and variety of “Titanic Rising”. Have to give it a few more listens. So far it sounds like a step down.

I wouldn't mind samey, for me it's the lack of dynamics / kick, the numb sixties music under narcotics, that prevents me from truly engaging with her (indeed otherwise well crafted) music. I agree the three songs noted by Nostormo are the best by a fair margin here.

Actually I would have said opener + hearts aglow + twin flame, but I also like Empire

I’ve really tried with this one. Big step down from Titanic for me.

Same. Supposedly this is the middle of a trilogy. I might leave it for now, til the final part is out.

mainly I guess it's just bumming me out too much. Empire Strikes Back in a world without Return of the Jedi ennit

"The Worst Is Done" is basically the exact realization of my greatest fears about how Songs About The Pandemic might have turned out. The worst thing she's ever written.

Saw her live this week. She's great. Really like "It's not just me"

(although Front Row Seat remains my fave by a mile)

average indie act number 63463567547something

man, really contributing to the discourse there, huh, caustic

would be intrigued to see the working on that one. whose songwriting is weyes blood's comparable to

Caustic did the same thing in some other tread I saw. Ignore.

Front Row Seat is my fav too, glad I saw here when she was touring for it. She was wryly sassy and charismatic on stage, and made me love her even more for it.

imo the followup, Titanic Wrysing, was even better!

I'm seeing her in a couple weeks - looking forward to it! I think the last time I saw her was 2014??

Having a fun conversation on Nico with the Jokermen pod guys

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jokermen/id1519299517?i=1000597165410

Man, this album.

I listened to Hearts Aglow most recently on a long nocturnal walk by Lake Ontario on the Friday before Christmas - probably my most uplifting memory of last year. I felt like it opened the emotional door to a post-pandemic way of life that I had been wary of.
Now I see that night as the completion of a personal arc that was started by listening to Lana Del Rey's NFR! on a long country drive on Thanksgiving weekend 2019, and the disaster that I felt it clearly foreboded but whose form wouldn't be known for a few months. I do often feel like disaster's on the way, but rarely crystallized neatly in album form.