Weyes Blood

No thread for her so far? Touring the US at the moment and Europe next month. New album The Innocents is sounding pretty great.

love her songs, love her voice, love her overdubs

The Innocents is one of my favorites from 2014, but I hope she keeps doing the more lo-fi psychedelic thing too. I'm a big fan of "Candyboy" from The Outside Room: http://youtu.be/U-zhNVkuxv0

easily the best thing I've discovered so far in my crazed trawl thru everything anyone has nominates for the 2014 polls

the innocents is a truly mesmerising piece of art that deserves to be spoken of decades from now

I cosign the love

new music video shot by a drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxs96Mmfu7A

is it pronounced "ways" or "wise"?

wise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q39iN1_q1g

new record is nice, totally not what i expected, i thought Weyes Blood was a noise band? did i imagine seeing them live in 2011? i think i might be mixing them up with Angels in America. anyway, this record is cool, really lush & detailed production, and i feel like her voice & mitski's voice & angel olsen's voice are all very similar. female baritone? idk

how have you heard it

got a promo

*seethes*

Name make it seem like they're an LA chicano rap band.

the advance tracks are great, so excited for this album

^ Completely. The two released tracks are beautiful. Such haunting, poignant depths to her melodies. Amongst my five favourite currently active singer-songwriters.

it's, what, her and Mitski? then who? exactly. NOBODY

angel olsen, lucy dacus my other 2 singer-songwriter indie albums this year

tt likes angel olsen. have never heard of dacus. will check 'em out

Weyes Blood is playing at a tiny tiny loft venue here, it's gonna be super packed and sweaty and nasty, i'm pissed

Does Richard Dawson count? I'll work on the rest. Thanks for the recommend flopson - will definitely listen.

She's playing here in November! We saw her before and it was lovely. Another completely tiny venue over a pub.

it wasn't packed and sweaty because maybe 6 people had turned up to see her, because the english are shit about liking good music or something

Y'all need to check out Circuit des Yeux/Haley Fohr

I thought I recognised the name Circuit des Yeux and I've just found it in my saved music. This new album will definitely be explored. First related artist as U.S. Girls is a huge bonus.

New Weyes Blood out October 21st, just to stay on topic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWvmGwKiOe0

Chicago represent!

heh cool Circuit Des Yeux is weird as hell, i'm into it

Weyes Blood is definitely my favourite new discovery. Enjoy the songs she did on the drugdealer record as well.

All three advance singles have been INCREDIBLE. Latest one ends with an interpretation of Lay Lady Lay, following up The Outside Room's opening track and it's House Of The Rising Sun riff. Needless to say, it works spectacularly.

She's getting a massive Pitchfork push this time around, which is nice. But will they have the guts to give it 9+?

Fuck this record is so good

AOTY

seriously beautiful record, so excited to get deeper into it

yeah I mean

knock yourself out, ilx

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497534567/first-listen-weyes-blood-front-row-seat-to-earth

http://www.thebeatjuice.com/trax/2016/10/13/18279/premiere-stream-the-gorgeous-new-weyes-blood-album-front-row-seat-to-earth/

Stunning record.

first impression: Seven Words is the best song on this, right? album seems very good, though every song's kinda the same with the trembly organ chords held for a loooong time... very nice sound but i miss some of the more peppy ramshackle buffy-st marie folky stuff like 'hang on'. maybe i'm in a bit of a glum mood and it's not helping

I put some we yes blood on last night when my gf's sister and her partner were over for dinner, and at one point when we were returning to the living room from the balcony for a cigarette, i paused and listened closely to catch the melody, and had to wait like 16 bars before I could make any sense of it! and this was the previous album which I've listened to dozens of times! the way the songs are written, with many cycling parts imperfectly overlapping, each cycle very long, it's easy to follow along if you come in at the beginning and follow along, but I really blown away by how difficult it was to reconstruct fro, within.

Do You Need My Love playing softly over the PA at a matinee im at rn

NOt heard the name pronounced so far, but I take it it's as in Flannery O'Connor/Foetus isn't it?

Have been impressed by what i've heard so far. So probably need to pick a few things up.

Wise Blood was also one of John Huston's last films starring Brad Dourif.

Flopson is otm here - "Seven Words" stands out. This record is a gorgeous homogenous slice of beauty with very few peaks and valleys. I completely relate to the themes of reconciliation and resignation, but this feels more like music to dwell in that than fight it.

New album is beautiful! First time hearing them and I think I'm in love.

It is a very impressive record, kinda unique? It's got a lot of rooted folky soul but also melodrama, but also moods that remind me of Enya... really not sure where to place it, but I like it

oh yeah, reminds me of Kate Bush and Shearwater too - the theatricality

best song is "Do You Need My Love"

i'm hearing that song EVERYWHERE out and about at all the same places that played Courtney Barnett's "Depreston" a year ago

movie theaters, cabs, restaurants, public PA's i can't place

so who's going to the gig tonight

btw this album is proper incredible like

In truth this album destabilizes me. I can relate to these lyrics on such a level that it's a sublime. It's a beautiful album.

Nice video here:

http://pitchfork.com/tv/51-live/1908-weyes-blood-perform-do-you-need-my-love-in-a-haunting-session/

She was amazing live, really amazing, and her band were perfect. Launched into a Soft Machine cover as the encore too. Hackney didn't really know what to make of her, which was a shame.

kinda dry production on that live session video, feels a bit lifeless

would love to see her live though

Mary....oh god

And 0PN, deep in his cocaine-wacko era? Fucksake

for litigious reasons i will further state that it merely sounds like he is coked out of his mind every time he opens his mouth to say how great he is and how great being rich is

thankfully this advance single is so good that Lattimore can't ruin it :D

'hookless' 'monotonous' you're about to witness imago, stan

the final go-around of the chorus is more important than some entire months

And 0PN, deep in his cocaine-wacko era? Fucksake

is this his current era? lol cocaine-wacko feels like a good way to describe the sound of Garden of Delete

I mean, I love how it sounds. Just wish it was in the service of something more than *vibes*. It has tons of potential.

Been reading rumours that after this gentle introduction, the album is darker, noisier and weirder than previous (if not her initial) works, which is v exciting if true

She's a Vangelis fan, supposedly. So see where 0PN may slot in being that he did a very decent V pastiche for his "Uncut Gems" score.

I really liked the way the song unwinds more on a second, less distracted listen.

On another note, I know this is part and parcel of how kids relate to their favorite musicians now, but it's weird to see a Weyes Blood tweet announcing new music and see so many replies calling her "Mother;" "Mother is blessing us once again; Mother is mothering so hard right now," etc. I imagine I'd be so weirded out if I was a young, female musician making this kind of music.

Welcome to RYM-era stanning. It is kinda gross but a lot of it comes from queer youths who may well have IRL family issues. LINGUA IGNOTA gets the same and kinda owns it? Anyway, I'm sure the stans will find a new way to relate before long

You, call her mummy. Me, I wear the Innocents-era tour shirt to show I got there first. We are not etc

It might have surprised me more because there are other artists like Phoebe Bridgers who are more active on social media and thus seem to cultivate that sort of community dynamic more. I guess I was oblivious that WB had as well, although I'm sure working with Lana helped.

she is going to be playing one of the larger venues in Austin, I'd like to see her play, but I'm not sure I really would enjoy it on that scale

I like this new single after a few times and it seems to grow on me the more I listen to it. Just like the previous album which I didn’t particularly enjoy at first then it clicked and I loved it soooo much. Anyway happy to have a new album from her soon.

funny to read all these comments because i'm connecting to this more immediately than i do to most of her stuff. it does feel like an album intro, or thesis statement of a kind. it's a very simple sentiment, not especially poetic, and one that's been echoed a lot during the pandemic, but it's rendered very beautifully and the directness of it should help establish a baseline of a worldview that is explored in more detail in subsequent songs.

love that philip glass melody that pops in for a second towards the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcdz30a-sdM

Beautiful melody (even when it is somewhat forced on the lyrics here and there).

The Moody Blues doing Dream Pop production is great too.

Really 70s Vangelis feel in this one, especially in the chorus.

fantastic song. awful final chord resolution. willing to look past this

As usual with her albums, Side 1 is excellen while side 2 is mainly just ok.

I get a very heavy Aimee Mann vibe from her. This is not a bad thing.

Need more listens, but the new one's kinda boring, I fear.

Wonderful album

Seems v good if not top-level for her. Hearts Aglow itself is quite something. Will require more listens

I’m really enjoying it so far

challop: God Turn Me Into A Flower is the worst thing here, just a very dull chord sequence, RYM consensus over it is baffling

Yeah, it's a nice song but far from the best here imo (Grapevine,Empire, Twin Flame)

God Turn Me Into A Flower is the best thing I’ve heard in years, holy shit. Thrilled to discover she’s playing Manchester next Spring too.

This has really grown on me.

Each record is taking more effort to grow on me. I love the craft, but miss the obliqueness. I'm holding out hope for her incorporating her origins at some point, and creating the Karen-Carpenter-Sings-Desertshore album I dream about.

This new one is too samey lyrically and musically compared to the prescience and variety of “Titanic Rising”. Have to give it a few more listens. So far it sounds like a step down.

I wouldn't mind samey, for me it's the lack of dynamics / kick, the numb sixties music under narcotics, that prevents me from truly engaging with her (indeed otherwise well crafted) music. I agree the three songs noted by Nostormo are the best by a fair margin here.

Actually I would have said opener + hearts aglow + twin flame, but I also like Empire

I’ve really tried with this one. Big step down from Titanic for me.

Same. Supposedly this is the middle of a trilogy. I might leave it for now, til the final part is out.

mainly I guess it's just bumming me out too much. Empire Strikes Back in a world without Return of the Jedi ennit

"The Worst Is Done" is basically the exact realization of my greatest fears about how Songs About The Pandemic might have turned out. The worst thing she's ever written.

Saw her live this week. She's great. Really like "It's not just me"

(although Front Row Seat remains my fave by a mile)

average indie act number 63463567547something

man, really contributing to the discourse there, huh, caustic

would be intrigued to see the working on that one. whose songwriting is weyes blood's comparable to

Caustic did the same thing in some other tread I saw. Ignore.

Front Row Seat is my fav too, glad I saw here when she was touring for it. She was wryly sassy and charismatic on stage, and made me love her even more for it.

imo the followup, Titanic Wrysing, was even better!

I'm seeing her in a couple weeks - looking forward to it! I think the last time I saw her was 2014??

Having a fun conversation on Nico with the Jokermen pod guys

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jokermen/id1519299517?i=1000597165410

Man, this album.

I listened to Hearts Aglow most recently on a long nocturnal walk by Lake Ontario on the Friday before Christmas - probably my most uplifting memory of last year. I felt like it opened the emotional door to a post-pandemic way of life that I had been wary of.
Now I see that night as the completion of a personal arc that was started by listening to Lana Del Rey's NFR! on a long country drive on Thanksgiving weekend 2019, and the disaster that I felt it clearly foreboded but whose form wouldn't be known for a few months. I do often feel like disaster's on the way, but rarely crystallized neatly in album form.