Weyes Blood

challop: God Turn Me Into A Flower is the worst thing here, just a very dull chord sequence, RYM consensus over it is baffling

Yeah, it's a nice song but far from the best here imo (Grapevine,Empire, Twin Flame)

God Turn Me Into A Flower is the best thing I’ve heard in years, holy shit. Thrilled to discover she’s playing Manchester next Spring too.

This has really grown on me.

Each record is taking more effort to grow on me. I love the craft, but miss the obliqueness. I'm holding out hope for her incorporating her origins at some point, and creating the Karen-Carpenter-Sings-Desertshore album I dream about.

This new one is too samey lyrically and musically compared to the prescience and variety of “Titanic Rising”. Have to give it a few more listens. So far it sounds like a step down.

I wouldn't mind samey, for me it's the lack of dynamics / kick, the numb sixties music under narcotics, that prevents me from truly engaging with her (indeed otherwise well crafted) music. I agree the three songs noted by Nostormo are the best by a fair margin here.

Actually I would have said opener + hearts aglow + twin flame, but I also like Empire

I’ve really tried with this one. Big step down from Titanic for me.

Same. Supposedly this is the middle of a trilogy. I might leave it for now, til the final part is out.

mainly I guess it's just bumming me out too much. Empire Strikes Back in a world without Return of the Jedi ennit

"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.

Saw her live this week. She's great. Really like "It's not just me"

(although Front Row Seat remains my fave by a mile)

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man, really contributing to the discourse there, huh, caustic

would be intrigued to see the working on that one. whose songwriting is weyes blood's comparable to

Caustic did the same thing in some other tread I saw. Ignore.

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.

imo the followup, Titanic Wrysing, was even better!

I'm seeing her in a couple weeks - looking forward to it! I think the last time I saw her was 2014??

Having a fun conversation on Nico with the Jokermen pod guys

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jokermen/id1519299517?i=1000597165410

Man, this album.

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.