Front Row Seat To Earth
by Weyes Blood
Icarus
Icarus
Natalie Mering is a 200,000 year old forest spirit living in the 21st century. If you happen to be on the planet while she's in human form, buy her records and understand how lucky you are.
Favorite track: Be Free.
Darrin King
Darrin King
I am bewitched by this woman.
Favorite track: Diary.
EJ Olsen
EJ Olsen
This feels like listening to a record from the far future, which is strange given that the music and Natalie Mering's voice draw so much inspiration from the past. Though it would be easy to write off this album as a pastiche of 1970's folk singer/songwriters, it also instantly feels progressive and otherworldly. Mering's nostalgic sultriness almost seems out of place juxtaposed with modern imagery, but her approach, message, and delivery is perhaps what we need most today.
Favorite track: Generation Why.
kemper-boyd
Kara
Jother
Kate
hillbilly jnr
Hop Scotch
Rodolph LAURENT
Rolle Ratt
James Kneale
Gareth Stacke
drongurin
Amy Yalland
Obsidian
Azam Malik
Logan Teder
Mateusz
palmipesqua
DeeMan
wavepansy
Iain Carey
Richard Parkinson
Bangoman
Flavia Papini
JMcD
LORENZO FARE'
Adam Birkland
Jonathan Ling
Lola Baï
allthekittiesloveme
William Franklin
team schwaggerty
Pete
matthew chahal
marie szobo
james smith
Tom Elliot
Brian
paul keeling
leecritter
Isabelle Hayeur
kmartigue
Yufeng Kok
Graham Williams
Clair
Ryan Krga
Anna Helena
vsp
janiellaniel
aktrcip
Justin
Thomas Kelly
Andrea Davide
prudence trinca
jumpjets
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VFSYES
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Speand
Jack Jack
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Diary
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Used to Be
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Be Free
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Do You Need My Love
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Generation Why
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Can't Go Home
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Away Above
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Front Row Seat
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about
The new Weyes Blood record, Front Row Seat To Earth, is the folk music of the near future. 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. It is the joyful release of energy as the song delicately unfolds from intro to extrospection.
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 and some special guests, 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.
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. It is the joyful release of energy as the song delicately unfolds from intro to extrospection.
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 and some special guests, 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.
credits
released October 21, 2016
All songs written by: Natalie Mering
Published by: Secretly Canadian Publishing (BMI)
Produced by: Natalie Mering and Chris Cohen
Engineered by: Chris Cohen
Mixed by: Kenneth Gilmore
Mastered by: David Ives
Artwork by: Evan Howard Hill
Photography by: Katie Miller
Layout by: Rob Carmichael, SEEN
All songs written by: Natalie Mering
Published by: Secretly Canadian Publishing (BMI)
Produced by: Natalie Mering and Chris Cohen
Engineered by: Chris Cohen
Mixed by: Kenneth Gilmore
Mastered by: David Ives
Artwork by: Evan Howard Hill
Photography by: Katie Miller
Layout by: Rob Carmichael, SEEN
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Oct 13Los Angeles, CA
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Nov 01Edinburgh, UK
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Nov 04Cardiff, UK
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Nov 07London, UK
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Nov 08London, UK
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Nov 09Utrecht, Netherlands
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Nov 11Paris, France
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Nov 12Brussels, Belgium
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Nov 14Berlin, Germany
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Nov 18Barcelona, Spain
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Nov 19Madrid, Spain
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Nov 20Lisbon, Portugal
discography
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Oct 2016 -
Oct 2015 -
Oct 2014 -
Apr 2013 -
May 2011
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- Track Name: Diary
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I stand apart from the rest
I had so much to give
where does my life go
those close to me may know
I've squandered my time
got rid of that dream of mine
and now you can't stay
please baby, don't go away
just give
me more time
I'll change my mind
I'll change
I'll change
I stand apart from the rest
I now must confess
I play a selfish game
only I'm the one to blame
I have squandered my mind
got rid of that dream of mine
and now you gotta leave
baby take pity on me
we can leave all the pain behind
gettin rid of that vice of mine
just give
me more time
I'll change my mind
I'll change
I'll change
I'll change my mind, I'll change - Track Name: Used to Be
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In spite of being so late
to the game
I won't fight fate
or lose my place
used to be the one
that knew me
saw through me
used to be the one
that knew
and every morning
when I rise
those cold blue eyes
aren't here too
the worst came true
the binds that break and shatter off
when you fall down
from the top
and your heart stops
used to be the one
that knew me
saw through me
used to be the one
that, knew me
you used
to be, the one that
knew me
you used to be the one - Track Name: Be Free
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It's sad to dream
It constantly seems
like there's no light at the end
of my tunnel
false dreams and promises
how do I get through to you
tried to do
the best I could
loved you just like a girl should
somewhere
I got stuck on you
It's just the two of us
and I want you to be free
don't worry about me
I got my thing
stay close to the edge
and try to admit it
that you gave it away
when you starve to care
and I cared
a long, long time of mine
I waited
for you to come around
I found
a one way street, that's me
still hanging on to set you free
make you believe
I'm yours
It's just the two of us
and I want you to be free
don't worry about me
I got my thing
I will never fear
when you're not with me - Track Name: Do You Need My Love
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tired of feeling so had
the world that I knew
just fell through
and left me outside
and we may be blind
more than the others
how it feels so good to feel
how I wanna feel
ever since I
saw those lion eyes
those tires feelings hide
behind your cigarette nights
your love
breaking apart inside
do you need me
the way I
need you
let's be true for a change
do you need someone
do you need my love
need my love
tired of feeling so bad
givin away everything
gonna learn to take the pain
I know that your love stings
passion is the only thing
passion must mean everything
I felt your body scream to be
set free from
the pain of what's gone
I'll move you along
do you need me
the way I
need you
let's be true for a change
do you need someone
do you need my love
need my love
everyone who knows me
knows I'm crazy for
loving you baby
do you need me like I
need you, too
tell me what I should do
do you need me
do you need me
the way I
need you - Track Name: Generation Why
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goin to see end of days
I've been hanging
on my phone all day
and the fear goes away
I might not need to stay
on this sinking ship
for long
I can give it away everyday
I can fly and spend all my seconds
like they're my last
it's not the past
that scares me
now what a great future
this is gonna be
Y-o-l-o , why
Y-o-l-o, why
used to think it was bad
that we were all goin mad
but now it's fine to leave
goodbye those old things
carry me through the
waves of change
carry me, through the waves
of change
I know my place
It's a beautiful thing
Y-o-l-o, why... - Track Name: Can't Go Home
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walkin along
bridge is so long
when will I ever reach
the other side
time , time flies
woke up this way
in the morning
faint from the heat
that follows me
everywhere I run
no ones got a door
open for more
and I wouldn't have it
any other way
I can't go home again
and all the riot times
and fire nights
burnin my body
my stars that shine
take me back
oh no not again
stuck here with you
fighter
do the right thing
can you suffer more
let the world
carve at your heart
don't need a home
if you come apart
I have moved more
then I can count
twist and turn
tryin to learn
and I wouldn't change my fate
do you look like me
when you fight
my stars align somewhere
take me back
and if I'm blind
to what I feel
I hope I can
love still dear
I hope you will
oh no not again
stuck here with you - Track Name: Seven Words
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these seven words
I say to you
one by one
I love you
and you have to know
if I could change
how I'm insane
if I could
learn to leave
my troubles behind
it's starting to hurt
and you're movin on
tellin everyone
how I done you so wrong
cat scratch a beast
my words that
made you bleed
now I face tomorrow
now I face tomorrow
In time we'll both
be free
from this ball and chain
hangin on to things
I want you mostly
in the morning
when my soul
is weak
from dreaming
when the dust has cleared
and you forget that I'm here
hangin on
I've been hangin
who had the last word
I'm tellin you first
who had the last word
I'm tellin you first
these seven words
are no longer mine
who am I
but a stranger
who took you down
it's starting to burn
and I wanna go home
only home I've known
lost in the storm
it had to be
seven words to set us free
now I face tomorrow
now I face tomorrow
now I face tomorrow - Track Name: Away Above
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away, above
find a perfect love
you and me
we're meant to see
it through, you
and me
you and me
I don't feel bad for you
and that what makes us free
you can buy into that dream
waitin for true love to seem
real
passing over bridges
faces wanna listen
I hope that we'll go home
I want to be alone
won't you come meet
me at nine
I'll bring your worst fears
if you bring mine
and we can laugh over
a night of red wine
got a radio to play the dream
necessary evil
are we meant to be
I swear that you know me
more than I'll ever know
away, above
find a perfect love
you and me
It was meant to
see some time through
yeah you
and me
I want hold back from you
sometimes I can't even feel
the wheel's broken
from pushin still
and the lines of knowing
and being undone
somethings you
just gotta run away from
but that doesn't change us
away and above
what you give is good
enough
got me livin in the dream
away, above
find a perfect love
you and me
we were meant to see
some time through
yeah you
and me
I won't hold back from you
