Latest Release
- 16 MAY 2023
- 1 Song
- Titanic Rising · 2019
- Titanic Rising · 2019
- Titanic Rising · 2019
- Desire, I Want To Turn Into You: Everasking Edition · 2024
- Titanic Rising · 2019
- Titanic Rising · 2019
- And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow · 2022
- And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow · 2022
- Front Row Seat to Earth · 2016
- Titanic Rising · 2019
Essential Albums
- Singer-songwriter Natalie Mering’s fourth album as Weyes Blood conjures the feeling of a beautiful object on a shelf just out of reach: You want to touch it, but you can’t, and so you do the next best thing—you dream about it, ache for it, and then you ache some more. Grand, melodramatic, but keenly self-aware, the music here pushes Mering’s '70s-style chamber pop to its cinematic brink, suffusing stories of everything from fumbled romance (the McCartney-esque “Everyday”) to environmental apocalypse (“Wild Time”) with a dreamy, foggy almost-thereness both gorgeous and profoundly unsettling. A self-described “nostalgic futurist”, Mering doesn’t recreate the past so much as demonstrate how the past is more or less a fiction to begin with, a story we love hearing no matter how sad its unreachability makes us. Hence the album’s centrepiece, “Movies”, which wonders—gorgeously, almost religiously—why life feels so messy by comparison. As to the thematic undercurrent of apocalypse, well, if extinction is as close as science says it is, we might as well have something pretty to play us out.
Albums
- 2019
- 2014
- 2011
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2022
Artist Playlists
- A folk-pop auteur exploring love and connection in a chaotic world.
Singles & EPs
Appears On
- Caroline Polachek
- Zella Day
More To Hear
- The artist on “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody.”
More To See
About Weyes Blood
Slowly progressing from experimental beginnings to more traditional modes as her creative output took shape, Natalie Mering's work as Weyes Blood grew more straightforward without losing its haunted edginess. Starting out as part of the noise underground, she eventually cleared the sonic detritus away from her songs until they resembled more traditional folk and soft rock on gorgeously produced albums like 2019's Titanic Rising (the project's fourth full-length and first to chart in the U.K.) and 2022's And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow.
- HOMETOWN
- Santa Monica, CA, United States
- BORN
- 11 June 1988
- GENRE
- Alternative