Weyes Blood

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

Xpost

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.

new album in november reputedly titled And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow:

🚨🚨🚨NEW WEYES BLOOD ALBUM “AND IN THE DARKNESS, HEARTS AGLOW” COMING IN NOVEMBER! 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/dfnD7gxTFJ

— conn-corde 🌩 (@carryymeout) September 8, 2022

Great news! I was hoping it was coming this year.

New song sounds like hook-less Carole King

Yeah, the melody sounds like the weakest TR tracks

Which means it's good,but not great.Too monotonous.

Sounds nice, doesn't make a huge impression, but it's track 1 on the album so maybe it sets the mood.

In other news, she's playing near me on my birthday. There's almost never a show I want to see on my birthday; pretty rad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ2lWUk_Rzk

This is the last song, live.

Same vibe, more or less

xpost I saw her on my birthday just before covid started and it was the best gift I could have given myself!

BTW Daniel Lopatin, and Mary Lattimore featured on the album, cool!

Mary....oh god

And 0PN, deep in his cocaine-wacko era? Fucksake

for litigious reasons i will further state that it merely sounds like he is coked out of his mind every time he opens his mouth to say how great he is and how great being rich is

thankfully this advance single is so good that Lattimore can't ruin it :D

'hookless' 'monotonous' you're about to witness imago, stan

the final go-around of the chorus is more important than some entire months

And 0PN, deep in his cocaine-wacko era? Fucksake

is this his current era? lol cocaine-wacko feels like a good way to describe the sound of Garden of Delete

I mean, I love how it sounds. Just wish it was in the service of something more than *vibes*. It has tons of potential.

Been reading rumours that after this gentle introduction, the album is darker, noisier and weirder than previous (if not her initial) works, which is v exciting if true

She's a Vangelis fan, supposedly. So see where 0PN may slot in being that he did a very decent V pastiche for his "Uncut Gems" score.

I really liked the way the song unwinds more on a second, less distracted listen.

On another note, I know this is part and parcel of how kids relate to their favorite musicians now, but it's weird to see a Weyes Blood tweet announcing new music and see so many replies calling her "Mother;" "Mother is blessing us once again; Mother is mothering so hard right now," etc. I imagine I'd be so weirded out if I was a young, female musician making this kind of music.