Do You Need My Love playing softly over the PA at a matinee im at rn
― flappy bird, Sunday, 16 October 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 16 October 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
Wise Blood was also one of John Huston's last films starring Brad Dourif.
― Stevolende, Monday, 17 October 2016 09:41 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ross, Saturday, 5 November 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
New album is beautiful! First time hearing them and I think I'm in love.
― calstars, Sunday, 6 November 2016 02:01 (seven years ago) link
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
― niels, Monday, 21 November 2016 09:27 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah, reminds me of Kate Bush and Shearwater too - the theatricality
― niels, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
best song is "Do You Need My Love"
― niels, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
i'm hearing that song EVERYWHERE out and about at all the same places that played Courtney Barnett's "Depreston" a year ago
― flappy bird, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
movie theaters, cabs, restaurants, public PA's i can't place
― flappy bird, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
so who's going to the gig tonight
btw this album is proper incredible like
― imago, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ross, Saturday, 26 November 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Nice video here:
http://pitchfork.com/tv/51-live/1908-weyes-blood-perform-do-you-need-my-love-in-a-haunting-session/
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
kinda dry production on that live session video, feels a bit lifeless
would love to see her live though
― niels, Thursday, 1 December 2016 08:23 (seven years ago) link
Ariel Pink/Weyes Blood collaborative EP out at the end of this month.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Sunday, 8 January 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
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
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
a conversation w/ WB & john cale just appeared in my twitter feed:
http://www.vogue.com/13520883/john-cale-weyes-blood-interview/
― NickB, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
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'.
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 12 January 2017 00:44 (seven years ago) link
I can't find much to dislike
― calstars, Thursday, 12 January 2017 01:25 (seven years ago) link
Is the full EP out there? I've listened to Tears on Fire nonstop for the last couple of days. It's very addictive.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Thursday, 12 January 2017 01:34 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 30 January 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Saturday, 25 February 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
Yeah she strikes me as the real thing
― calstars, Saturday, 25 February 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link
I love their new record. Are the older ones good too?
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 26 February 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Are "they" a band now? When I saw Weyes Blood it was just Mering backed by tapes.
― example (crüt), Sunday, 26 February 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
they're a really good band, soft machine covers and all (and yeah when I saw 'them' first it was just her)
― imago, Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
It was Nilsson covers when I saw her.
― example (crüt), Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
maybe it was just a special treat for her british audience
― imago, Sunday, 26 February 2017 18:31 (seven years ago) link
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
― calstars, Sunday, 26 February 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Sunday, 26 February 2017 18:53 (seven years ago) link
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.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Monday, 27 February 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Oh wow... OK that sounds interesting.
― Evan, Monday, 27 February 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
I meant to type "her" above. There is no band
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 27 February 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2017 07:30 (six years ago) link
what's the new one called? It's passed me by completely
― boxedjoy, Friday, 8 September 2017 10:19 (six years ago) link
'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
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
Oh cool, she's been playing "Everybody's Talkin" at live shows for a few years now
― crüt, Friday, 8 September 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
still absolutely can't fucking believe brainwashed.com readers voted FRSTE the second-WORST album of last year. proper fucking neckbeard shit
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
maybe weyes blood triggers sensitive swansbro morons particularly effectively
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
gira sucks
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 8 September 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
was she particularly vocal in larkin's corner
― imago, Saturday, 9 September 2017 02:46 (six years ago) link
or are these people simply threatened by a woman daring to write psych-pop
― imago, Saturday, 9 September 2017 03:06 (six years ago) link
The single is so great, I was just thinking/hoping she'd release studio versions of those covers a few days ago!
― 🔱 Holger Jowday ^🌑^ (Dancing on the Pylons), Saturday, 9 September 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Oh shit I didn't realise the A-side was that awesome Soft Machine cover she'd been doing!
― imago, Sunday, 10 September 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― 🔱 Holger Jowday ^🌑^ (Dancing on the Pylons), Sunday, 10 September 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
Her last EP is up there but that last LP sums up heartbreak so well and the fall out of a relationship. A +
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 13 January 2018 06:48 (six years ago) link
Ariel pink collab is some of her finest stuff
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't go that far, but it's very good. Her last two solo albums have been amongst the best music of the decade
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
Absolutely love the last full length but there's a playfulness on the EP that's a nice change
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
Same. Supposedly this is the middle of a trilogy. I might leave it for now, til the final part is out.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
mainly I guess it's just bumming me out too much. Empire Strikes Back in a world without Return of the Jedi ennit
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
"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.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
Saw her live this week. She's great. Really like "It's not just me"
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 February 2023 11:51 (one year ago) link
(although Front Row Seat remains my fave by a mile)
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 February 2023 11:52 (one year ago) link
average indie act number 63463567547something
― CerebralCaustic, Saturday, 4 February 2023 00:21 (one year ago) link
man, really contributing to the discourse there, huh, caustic
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 6 February 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
would be intrigued to see the working on that one. whose songwriting is weyes blood's comparable to
― imago, Monday, 6 February 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
Caustic did the same thing in some other tread I saw. Ignore.
― alpine static, Monday, 6 February 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Monday, 6 February 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
imo the followup, Titanic Wrysing, was even better!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 6 February 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
I'm seeing her in a couple weeks - looking forward to it! I think the last time I saw her was 2014??
― c u (crüt), Monday, 6 February 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
Having a fun conversation on Nico with the Jokermen pod guys https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jokermen/id1519299517?i=1000597165410
― bendy, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
Man, this album.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 27 February 2023 08:12 (one year ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 04:18 (three months ago) link