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Titanic Rising

Weyes Blood
Vinyl  |  Alternative  |  05 Apr 2019
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The phantom zone, the parallax, the upside down—there is a rich cultural history of exploring in-between places. Through her latest, Titanic Rising, Weyes Blood, a.k.a. Natalie Mering, has designed her own universe to soulfully navigate life's mysteries.

Maneuvering through a space-time continuum, she plays the role of melodic, sometimes melancholic, anthropologist. Tellingly, Mering classifies Titanic Rising – which was written and recorded during the first half of 2018, after three albums and years of touring - as the Kinks meet WWII or Bob Seger meets Enya. The latter captures the album's willful expansiveness ("You can tell there's not a guy pulling the strings in Enya's studio," she notes, admiringly). The former relays her imperative to connect with listeners.

"The clarity of Bob Seger is unmistakable. I'm a big fan of conversational songwriting," she adds. "I just try to do that in a way that uses abstract imagery as well."

The Weyes Blood frontwoman grew up singing in gospel and madrigal choirs. (Listen closely to Titanic Rising, and you'll also hear the jazz of Hoagy Carmichael mingle with the artful mysticism of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the monomyth of scholar Joseph Campbell.) "Something to Believe," a confessional that makes judicious use of the slide guitar, touches on that cosmological upbringing.

"Belief is something all humans need. Shared myths are part of our psychology and survival," she says. "Now we have a weird mishmash of capitalism and movies and science. There have been moments where I felt very existential and lost." As a kid, she filled that void with Titanic. (Yes, the movie.) "It was engineered for little girls and had its own mythology," she explains. Mering also noticed that the blockbuster romance actually offered a story about loss born of man's hubris. "It's so symbolic that The Titanic would crash into an iceberg, and now that iceberg is melting, sinking civilization."

Today, this hubris also extends to the relentless adoption of technology, at the expense of both happiness and attention spans. But Weyes Blood isn't one to stew. Her observations play out in an ethereal saunter: far more meditative than cynical. To Mering, listening and thinking are concurrent experiences. "There are complicated influences mixed in with more relatable nostalgic melodies," she says. "In my mind my music feels so big, a true production. I'm not a huge, popular artist, but I feel like one when I'm in the studio. But it's never taking away from the music. I'm just making a bigger space for myself."

Title: Titanic Rising

Format: Vinyl

Release Date: 05 Apr 2019

Artist: Weyes Blood

Sku: 2418818

Catalogue No: SP1232

Category: Alternative

DISC 1

A Lot's Gonna Change

Andromeda

Everyday

Something to Believe

Titanic Rising

Movies

Mirror Forever

Wild Time

Picture Me Better

Nearer to Thee


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