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Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat To Earth

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  • Natalie Mering, the being behind Weyes Blood, embeds her sublime song in a harmonic gauze of arpeggiated piano, acoustic guitar, druggy horns, & outer space electronics. Propulsive, spare drums carry us across the album's course. There is a faded California beauty to Front Row. A gentle honesty that recalls the finest folk music made on the West Coast of the '70s. The hue hangs in the sweet-spooky harmonies, the pulsing sway of the vibrato & the ecstatic chord resolves. But this beauty is scratched with shadow; with dark foreboding, alienation, & acceptance of change. Love & loss balance together in suspended alchemy, as the earthiness of the singer-songwriter tradition wears digital sounds like feathers in its hair.

    Mering, together with co-producer Chris Cohen contrasts live band intimacy with the post-modern electric sheen of A.M. radio atmospherics. The experimental flourishes sparkle amid the succinct, thoughtful arrangements. The closeness of this record - how personal, alone, & frank it feels - conceals its aspirations to the outside, to the "Earth" of its title. Weyes Blood harbours devastating weight while also universalising the strange ways of identity & relationships. These are not typical love songs or protest songs -- they are painful, poignant riddles that celebrate the ambiguity of love & affirm the conflict of harmonious life within a disharmonic world.


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  • Artist: Weyes Blood
    Label: Mexican Summer
    Format: LP
    Units: 1
    Country: US
    Genre: Pop & Rock
    Style: Ambient
  • A1 Diary
    A2 Used To Be
    A3 Be Free
    A4 Do You Need My Love
    B1 Generation Why
    B2 Can'T Go Home
    B3 Seven Words
    B4 Away Above
    B5 Front Row Seat