Weyes Blood

She has an amazing voice imo. And the latest album is amazing. But this is an awkward performance. Maybe stress or something. I can’t believe she’s not bigger at this point.

Front Row is much better than Titanic if only because Do You Need My Love and Used To Be: melodies in the same hige level as the best of Todd Rundgren/Kate Bush/Zombies.
Might be my favorite artist od the decade.

those are probably her two best songs yeah

I'm in the same boat of favoring Front Row Seat over Titanic

i wouldn't be surprised if she will sign with a big mainstream label for her next record.

FRSTE over Titanic yes but they're both incredible

sandy denny vibez

i think her voice sounds great in that Late Night performance!

I much prefer Titanic, even though the second half is a bit weaker and I would have sequenced it differently (as I posted upthread).
I like FRSTE but the best songs on Titanic simply hit me stronger.

I will say this about supposed weaker track Picture Me Better: months later, it now slays me every time. We really did find a winter for its sweater

Picture me Better is one of my favorites on this. I only started liking this album when I started listening to the second half first and then loop back to the first half.

I don't know, maybe it's just that I don't like Andromeda and putting that track second just tainted the whole rest of the album for me on my initial listens.

Since hearing Titanic a few months ago and considering it to be one of the albums of the decade, I'm strangely finding the previous material strangely hasn't clicked at all so far.

Man, "Wild Time" is allll time. What a great song.

seriously

Yeah "Wild Time" is fantastic. I love the one note piano part during the verses.
And that track sounds so warm.
Perfect Autumn song !

concert in berlin tonight is sold out, i am such a sleepyhead!

Aaaah, I had the same problem in Paris a few months ago, realizing too late she was gonna play in town, so I booked tickets for a concert in another city not too far but then I couldn't go because of an injury...
She was here again a few days ago but it was only for the P4K festival and I couldn't bother attend a whole festival (+ I was already busy that night anyway).

A good album.

Man, "Wild Time" is allll time. What a great song.

Goosebumps at the vocal delivery on "you just did what you had toooooo"

Saw her live a week ago, on the last show of her current tour. Great performance, incredible vocals, tight band (especially the girl on bass, keys and b/v whose name I unfortunately forgot); she was also quite charismatic as a perfomer and there's a certain old-fashioned star quality to her. She played the whole new album (sans the instrumental interludes albeit the title track was used as a pre-recorded intro), a bunch of songs from Front Row Seat to Earth, and then closed with an encore of "Do You Need My Love", a cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (lol), and a solo version of "In the Beginning". I'd definitely recommend seeing her if she comes anywhere near you - I went in as an appreciator and came out as a fan.

Zak (Raw Thrills) & Natalie Mering's (Weyes Blood) Mother's first album, Pamela Mering - Childhood Train, limited copies available, self released in 2008. Carole King, Joni Mitchell & Linda Ronstadt Vibe:

https://gunktvrecords.bandcamp.com/album/childhood-train

"Andromeda" = song of the year

It remained my album of the year, too.

Good song Someting to Believe is better though imo

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Gorgeous new song that no one talks about sonehow:

https://youtu.be/DIX1Ftka7U0

i didn't know about it! but it is great!

Sounds like her old ,folky style. I wonder is if it's an unreleased old track or a new recorded one.

that is amazing. from the atmosphere it reminds me of joni mitchell's first album without the warble.

lovely

superb as ever

wondering how much to break my one-track-per-artist rule in the eoy traxpoll

how in the hell had I never heard her before yesterday. stunning record

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

― imago, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 16:38 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

Just discovered her last week. Awesome new album. Get Karen Carpenter vibes off her for some reason.

she does sound like karen carpenter

yeah, i just listened to this yesterday because of the poll, and here i am on my fourth listen already! i haven't listened to her in a few albums, but i'll have to go back and check them out! i didn't realize she had this whole carole king + nilsson thing that seems to come effortlessly

did she arrange everything too? they're lovely, throughout

Love how similar the first few seconds of Andromeda and Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft are

Like this album a lot but 'Everyday' really sticks out like a sore thumb, the jauntiness doesn't suit her somehow. Like she's hit on one style at which she is exceptional but when she deviates from that it feels forced?

Disagree. Good song, Todd Rundgren style, kinda

otoh i find it one of the better songs on record ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I really hope her success won't ruin her future music, like it did to so many artists before who got closer to mainstream.

ROCKIST!

Everyday was the song that got me into the album. It's a highlight

“Everyday” is about dating terrible dudes off Tinder iirc

last 2 mins of Everyday was definitely one of my tippy top musical highlights of 2019

i love how it somehow manages to interpolate both Strawberry Fields and Girl while being knitted out of the same material as Penny Lane

Fits really well where it is I think. As great as the record gets, the opening 3 (Lot's Gonna Change > Andromeda > Everyday) is my favourite part.

Listening to her first album, from 2011, for the first time. It’s like a noisier Grouper. Not what I was expecting based on the newest album.

yeah its quite a change eh

discovered WB recently through my friend's quarantine playlist including "Something to Believe." it rules and i just hyped it on the Solo Beatles Poll thread because it reminded me so much of a George album cut with John playing piano. high time i dig into the rest of her stuff.