Weyes Blood
Weyes Blood Mulls Love on Interstate 5 on New Song ‘Grapevine’
Weyes Blood mulls love and loss while traveling on southern California’s Interstate 5 on her new song “Grapevine,” the second track from her upcoming album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. The project will be released Nov. 18 by Sub Pop. “Technology is harvesting our attention away from each other. We all have a ‘grapevine’ entwined around our past with unresolved wounds and pain,” Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering says. “Being in love doesn’t necessarily mean being together. Why else do so many love songs yearn for a connection?” [embedded content][embedded content] The 10-track And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is the follow-up to 2019’s Titanic Rising and was produced by Mering with help from Jonathan Rado and Rodaidh McDonald. According to Sub Pop, the album is about “being in the thick ...
I Write the Songs…
Listen to “Valentine,” the title cut on the latest album from Matador recording artist Snail Mail, and you feel transported back to the early years of Lollapalooza, if not earlier. The song opens with waves of ‘80s synth and staccato bursts of Police-style guitar, then segues into a crunchy power-pop chorus that Billy Corgan might have scripted. Snail Mail grew up in the D.C. suburbs as Lindsey Jordan. She is 23. Surely, she is not a Billy Corgan fan. You ask anyway. “I have a Smashing Pumpkins tattoo,” she replies. She holds it up to the Zoom camera. Spin the latest albums by Lindsey or Marissa Nadler or Shannon Lay, and you will hear the fruits of a modern singer-songwriter movement, a string of masterful recordings by young, mostly female artists who grew up listening to their parents’ ...
Weyes Blood ‘Seeks Freedom’ on New Album And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Weyes Blood will release her new album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, on Nov. 18 through Sub Pop, led by its opening track “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody,” which California-born singer/songwriter Natalie Mering describes a “Buddhist anthem.” [embedded content][embedded content] The 10-track album is the follow-up to 2019’s Titanic Rising. It was produced by Mering with help from Jonathan Rado and Rodaidh McDonald. According to Sub Pop, the album is about “being in the thick of it: a search for an escape hatch to liberate us from algorithms and ideological chaos.” And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is available for pre-order. Weyes Blood shared a statement about the making of and inspirations behind And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow will be sup...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: The Weather Station
Name The Weather Station (Tamara Lindeman) Best known for Thinking too much. Current city Toronto. Really want to be in I would love to be in the Azores about now, honestly. Migration season, all the flowers and birds, all the green. Excited about Having a friend over, hugging people, being in the same room as another human without a mask on. That would be nice. My current music collection has a lot of Gordon Lightfoot. A lot of dollar records are Lightfoot, and so you end up with a pretty hefty Lightfoot collection without even trying… And a little bit of Everything. Don’t judge me for I can’t think of any records I wouldn’t want to admit to owning. My love is my own! Preferred format As a listener, I prefer streaming. I’m a headphones listener. To have access to nearly all of recorded mu...
