fav songs on second listen are Movies, based around a synth arpeggio which builds up with mult-track vocals and then a break down with violin following the synth and builds again, and Mirror Forever which has a nice synthy guitar lead and the most interesting melody/lyrics a lot of the other songs are based around piano and strings.title track is a short washy synth instrumental. final song is a short strings/synth instrumental.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
o yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFtRq6t3jOo
― mizzell, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlykn_KSQ3o
― mizzell, Thursday, 28 March 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
ooh
btw this album has gone OFF on RYM. haven't heard it yet but...wow
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Thursday, 28 March 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link
For ppl who have yet to preorder:
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/28/705506270/first-listen-weyes-blood-titanic-rising
― Simon H., Thursday, 28 March 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
ah right ok let's go
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Thursday, 28 March 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
ok, my feeling is: good, not as good as the previous two, but i can sort of understand why RYM has gone berserk - they've basically been asleep for three albums. also this has a bigger sound and everyone loves that
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Thursday, 28 March 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
that is your feeling after one listen, is that correct?
― alpine static, Thursday, 28 March 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
two listens! it might be a grower too
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Thursday, 28 March 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
also fuck you - who are you to patronise me like that
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, 29 March 2019 07:36 (five years ago) link
sorry, that was a bit strong
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, 29 March 2019 11:26 (five years ago) link
and maybe alpine static knows something i don't, because this is growing on me now
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, 29 March 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
I understand the high quality but just it is just not my cup of tea. Feeling wins over logic.
― nostormo, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
this record kinda reminds me of Mitski's Be The Cowboy - not sonically, but it's a very strong, solid, well-crafted record that feels like a mass appeal-ready crystallization of the artist's vision, with maybe just a teensy tiny bit too much of the rough edge polished off.
Be The Cowboy was top 10 worthy, and so is Titanic Rising.
― alpine static, Saturday, 30 March 2019 07:02 (five years ago) link
they are probably the two best current songwriters
listening to this again this morning...i don't know why i ever doubted it, this is incredible. as you say, it is more widely-appealing than the early stuff, but it hits this amazing space-psych vibe that it sustains throughout. it's ecstatic for its vision
be the cowboy is definitely mitski's best imo and time will tell if this is weyes blood's
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Saturday, 30 March 2019 08:12 (five years ago) link
Waiting for this one to come out, but I adored her last one. One thing though - the vinyl mastering of Front Row Seat to Earth was shite. Hopefully the budget for this one's physical release is better. Can't wait to hear it
― octobeard, Sunday, 31 March 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
idk there's something ironic about her style.
i wish there were more upbeat songs on this record, like Everyday
― nostormo, Sunday, 31 March 2019 08:12 (five years ago) link
well, i'm getting blown away here
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
:)
the whole thing is amazing but wait, just wait, until 'wild time'
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
As the songwriter said in a recent press statement, "It's about losing your interest in trying to be in love. Everybody is their own galaxy, their own separate entity. There is a feeling of needing to be saved, and that's a lot to ask of people."
relatable, i gotta say
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
not a lot of records make me think of odessey & oracle more than once
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
brb just got swallowed up by "movies"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, March 31, 2019 3:30 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes!!! i mean that is the level of songwriting here
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
wow "movies" ruined my fucking life
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
it just doesn't stop coming at you
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
aoty
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
New one sounds great! What a singer.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
I've only really heard the last album (and not the new one yet) but I've never particularly associated Weyes Blood with a "rough edge".
― Matt DC, Thursday, 4 April 2019 08:00 (five years ago) link
I was trying to think of who she reminded me off, then finally my brain gave me Ron Sexsmith, of all people.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 April 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
The reminded me of A Girl Called Eddy on the first listen. Maybe less so now.
― doug watson, Thursday, 4 April 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Sunday, March 31, 2019 10:34 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
damn O&O comparisons from brad and imago, i'm excited
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 April 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
does anyone else hear a tiny little rhythmic (or something) misfire at 1:10 of Everyday? right when she says "things"
― alpine static, Thursday, 4 April 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
Gorgeous album.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 4 April 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
Every one of her songs is a journey
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 5 April 2019 06:27 (five years ago) link
aoty so far
― alpine static, Friday, 5 April 2019 07:08 (five years ago) link
after how many listens? ;)
(but...yeah)
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, 5 April 2019 07:52 (five years ago) link
I love that this and Julia Holter's "Aviary" have appeared within just a short time of each other. They're almost companion pieces to my ears.
Not hearing The Zombies in this as much as flickers of other beloved folks: Karen Carpenter (that voice!), Emmylou Harris, "I Talk To The Wind" by King Crimson ("Wild Time"), ...
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
I suspect imago will have something to say about this ;)
I could not get with her first record, but this is gorgeous so far (on first listen).
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:51 (five years ago) link
zombies comparison was mostly a reaction to how immediate and sharp yet unexpected the melodies are in this context
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
bring it :)
and imago otm re "Wild Time".
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:56 (five years ago) link
yeah, otm. I can see that.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:57 (five years ago) link
This is altogether stronger than Front Row Seat to Earth, just as good as The Innocents, and almost certainly album of the year. I love how comfortably she displays her influences whilst merging them with her own radical, intergalactic folk. I hear a bit of Pet Sounds in this and, like everyone says, The Carpenters. Though lyrically and atmospherically more hopeless-seeming, I still find this way more upbeat than the last album. The first song kicking in almost killed me - I love how that bit is the first impression people new to Weyes Blood will receive.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
I'm new to her and think I'm going to hold off exploring her previous albums for awhile. Can't imagine them being as good as this.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
People who like this will probably like Nathalie Prass' excellent debut album too (which is very different from her sophomore album from last year), much of it is in the same vein.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
For some reason, I forgot she had albums before Front Row Seat, guess I need to go back and check those out too.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
This new album really reminds me of Heidi Berry.
― henry s, Friday, 5 April 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
<q>after how many listens? ;)
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, April 5, 2019 12:52 AM</q>
haha, you got me. fair enough. :)
answer: maybe 10 listens over a week or so? (which i'm not saying is enough to declare an album of the year.)
― alpine static, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
ah crap ...
after how many listens? ;)(but...yeah)― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, April 5, 2019 12:52 AM (eight hours ago)
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, April 5, 2019 12:52 AM (eight hours ago)
― alpine static, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
This is gorgeous so far....don't know if anyone is into Catherine Howe's What a Beautiful Place but kinda similar vibes and equally great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
Also has she confirmed the title is a reference to the show Homecoming? cuz it feels like it kinda has to be
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link