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Front Row Seat To Earth

Weyes Blood

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Format: CD

Cat No: MEX2282

Release Date:  21 October 2016

Label:  Mexican Summer / Kemado

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  0184923122824

Genres:  Indie  

Release Date:  21 October 2016

Label:  Mexican Summer / Kemado

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  0184923122817

Genres:  Indie  

  • Description

    Natalie Mering, the being behind Weyes Blood, embeds her sublime song in a harmonic gauze of arpeggiated piano, acoustic guitar, druggy horns, and 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 and the ecstatic chord resolves. But this beauty is scratched with shadow; with dark foreboding, alienation, and acceptance of change. Love and 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, and frank it feels - conceals its aspirations to the outside, to the "Earth" of its title. Weyes Blood harbors devastating weight while also universalizing the strange ways of identity and relationships. These are not typical love songs or protest songs -- they are painful, poignant riddles that celebrate the ambiguity of love and affirm the conflict of harmonious life within a disharmonic world.

    Description

    Natalie Mering, the being behind Weyes Blood, embeds her sublime song in a harmonic gauze of arpeggiated piano, acoustic guitar, druggy horns, and 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 and the ecstatic chord resolves. But this beauty is scratched with shadow; with dark foreboding, alienation, and acceptance of change. Love and 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, and frank it feels - conceals its aspirations to the outside, to the "Earth" of its title. Weyes Blood harbors devastating weight while also universalizing the strange ways of identity and relationships. These are not typical love songs or protest songs -- they are painful, poignant riddles that celebrate the ambiguity of love and affirm the conflict of harmonious life within a disharmonic world.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Diary
      • 2. Used to Be
      • 3. Be Free
      • 4. Do You Need My Love
      • 5. Generation Why
      • 6. Can't Go Home
      • 7. Seven Words
      • 8. Away Above
      • 9. Front Row Seat

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Diary
      • 2. Used to Be
      • 3. Be Free
      • 4. Do You Need My Love
      • 5. Generation Why
      • 6. Can't Go Home
      • 7. Seven Words
      • 8. Away Above
      • 9. Front Row Seat