Weyes Blood

Yeah! I so hope to see her play it in concert one day 🙏 It wasn't on the setlist (yet) for her great great great Raleigh show last... November? A couple of days before the election, ugh.

Her last EP is up there but that last LP sums up heartbreak so well and the fall out of a relationship. A +

Ariel pink collab is some of her finest stuff

Wouldn't go that far, but it's very good. Her last two solo albums have been amongst the best music of the decade

Absolutely love the last full length but there's a playfulness on the EP that's a nice change

Yes - and in the covers single from last year as well. It will be extremely interesting to see what her next move is.

damn thanks for the reminder regarding the covers imago, will check again

The second verse of Used To Be should be sent into space as a document of humanity

^ yeah!

couldn't find any posts or threads but i think this band has something to do with weyes blood? lush psych, excellent stuff

https://oldenyolk.bandcamp.com/

Very good record, that one. What's the Weyes Blood connection?

ya this is nice

i think they did a split w/ weyes blood and possibly shared a member or two at some point

man if lana del rey had put out 'front row seat to earth' yall wdve gone *apeshit*

Not enough swear words.

not enough going for the most obvious melody in any given situation

that's harsh, ldr isn't bad. but god what did weyes blood have to do to get everyone's attention. she even wrote do you need my love' and got shrugs

Maybe it would help if she re-wrote a famous Radiohead song.

But seriously, the reason why LDR gets so much more attention is because she's had a lot of mainstream success and Weyes Blood hasn't.

also maybe sooooooomething to do with image? they are both extremely pretty but LDR makes much more of a show of it/her visage

also Weyes Blood's music was pretty "weird" before Front Row

Weyes rules. Drug dealer collbs dope too

Imago otm

LL otm

Lana Del Rey is a pop singer-songwriter and superstar because that's what she is; Weyes Blood is an indie singer-songwriter with a cult following because that's what she is. Two different worlds. You might as well ask why Ariel Pink doesn't get the same pop star hype as Abel Tesfaye.

Would you not agree though that the last WB album was full of brilliant pop songs, though, or that LDR has quite a bit of indie cred?

Her songs are clearly too progressive in that they don't always end where they began.

I honestly haven't paid much attention to WB in the past couple of years! I love her voice and I think she has great taste but her productions don't sound very poppy to me? Pop music is extremely hi-def & quantized & autotuned these days & that's not really a vibe I envision her pursuing. She keeps the rough edges in her music iirc. I personally liked her best when her recordings had lots of tape hiss, e.g. "Candyboy"

As for Lana Del Rey, I know only what I read and the very little I've heard, but she seems very invested in that hi-def world.

The aforementioned 'Do You Need My Love' got quite a bit of airplay and a glowing Pitchfork write-up. I definitely think she's gone pop, in a 70s kind of way.

I bumped this thread because the two new LDR songs ILM was slavering over sounded a bit like watered-down Weyes Blood to my ears

Is the new LDR album really called "Norman Fucking Rockwell"? That's a pretty funny joke that will get old very fast.

Maybe a bit better than that (Venice Bitch being far superior to the other one) but certainly along similar lines

LDR channels Lee Hazlewood eccentricities, but Weyes Blood seems to be an actual eccentric like Hazlewood. Or what crut said about pop vs. cult.

I think imago is saying weyes is underrated

No way is it watered down ldr tho man

Retract ?

Christine McVie vibes on this one https://open.spotify.com/track/40PRp88YqFp5fM0MtG2j1N?si=N4Wl5gWSQOyEMSQArqdSJw

new https://open.spotify.com/track/0L6lVIgGqVHnmR3BIy8GHa

beautiful track, and an instant earworm

keep listening to andromeda again and again. it's wonderful. melodically more pleasing than anything on front row, and i love the lead guitar.

"melodically more pleasing than anything on front row"

strong disagree. but it is lovely and I'm excited for what's next

new album, Titanic Rising, is out April 5.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2019/02/weyes-blood-titanic-rising.jpg
1. A Lot’s Gonna Change
2. Andromeda
3. Everyday
4. Something to Believe
5. Titanic Rising
6. Movies
7. Mirror Forever
8. Wild Time
9. Picture Me Better
10. Nearer To Thee

i prefer the art released with Andromeda
https://subpop-wysiwyg.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads%2F1547682611625-WeyesBlood_Andromeda_600.jpg

Awesome!

Andromeda the better of the two advance singles so far but she's definitely going for something pretty singular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-BFlTo5ag

wait a second
i just watched the first 36 seconds of that video before i realized this is 100% not what i thought "weyes blood" sounded like

haha me too ... this sounds like aimee mann (not a complaint, it's good!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsvKUoGzXk

this is streaming on the sub pop site if you pre-ordered the album. on first listen nothing stood out like Andromeda has. gonna listen again now.

you mean the album is streaming???

this song is awesome obv

yes

if i were to hypothetically pre-order the album now, i could hear the stream, is what you're saying

interesting

i would like to hear more about how it compares to her previous stuff