(2019) Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Review:
The road that songwriter Natalie Mering and her shapeshifting project Weyes Blood walked was a long and twisting route, leading from weird experimental early days to the high definition grandeur of fourth album Titanic Rising. Every step of the journey brought Mering’s gifts for songcraft into sharper focus, with 2014’s achingly beautiful The Innocents losing some of its hush with the soft rock lushness of 2016’s Front Row Seat to Earth. That 70’s FM radio spirit continues on Titanic Rising, but is expanded with more daring songwriting, larger than life arrangements and the crystallization of Mering’s distinctive take on songcraft. Mering has always been geared towards the big-picture creation of albums more than just writing stand alone tunes. Even her earliest work had a sense of purposeful architecture to the way it flowed between folky dirges and sheets of noise. Here she underscores enormously orchestrated pop songs with eerie experimental ambience, imagining a dreamworld where Joni Mitchell’s late 70’s output was produced by Brian Eno. Mitchell’s introspective searching is a key reference point for many of these songs, with Maring’s self-harmonizing and bounding melodic approach recalling Mitchell on many tracks here. 

Tracklist:
01 - A Lot's Gonna Change
02 - Andromeda
03 - Everyday
04 - Something to Believe
05 - Titanic Rising
06 - Movies
07 - Mirror Forever
08 - Wild Time
09 - Picture Me Better
10 - Nearer to Thee

Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: indie-folk, indie-pop