album Weyes Blood - 'And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow'

[Supervillain]

1. It’s Not Just Me It’s Everybody - 6:16

2. Children of the Empire - 6:03

3. Grapevine - 5:25

4. God Turn Me Into a Flower - 6:25

5. Hearts Aglow - 5:49

6. And in the Darkness - 0:14

7. Twin Flame - 4:22

8. In Holy Flux - 1:47

9. The Worst is Done - 6:00

10. A Given Thing - 4:01

[Ratchet ★]

So exciting  I’m most curious about twin flame 

[Unoriginal]

claiming children of the empire and god turn me into a flower

 

wonder if the scrapped lead will be a japan bonus track

[SitarHero]

Her 8 song + 1/2 interlude formula is oddly satisfying. Claiming Hearts Aglow!

[sam.teas]

preparing my grave for tomorrow, I'm not ready
 

[Cannon]

Thank god she’s coming to save this year.

[RuflesCando]

True love is making a comeback!!

[brooklyndaddy]

9 hours ago, Unoriginal said:

claiming children of the empire and god turn me into a flower

 

wonder if the scrapped lead will be a japan bonus track

It’s very odd to take that the lead single was completely scrapped from the album  I really do wonder the reason

[Ice Cream Skies]

Just over 45 minutes. 3 minutes or so longer than Titanic.

[World Eater]

Official cover, straight from the source

 

[RideOrDie]

Hello Listener, 

Well, here we are! Still making it all happen in our very own, fully functional **** show. My heart, like a glow stick that’s been cracked, lights up my chest in a little explosion of earnestness. And when your heart’s on fire, smoke gets in your eyes. 

Titanic Rising was the first album of three in a special trilogy. It was an observation of things to come, the feelings of impending doom. And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is about entering the next phase, the one in which we all find ourselves today — we are literally in the thick of it. Feeling around in the dark for meaning in a time of instability and irrevocable change. Looking for embers where fire used to be. Seeking freedom from algorithms and a destiny of repetitive loops. Information is abundant, and yet so abstract in its use and ability to provoke tangible actions. Our mediums of communication are fraught with caveats. Our pain, an ironic joke born from a gridlocked panopticon of our own making, swirling on into infinity. 

I was asking a lot of questions while writing these songs, and hyper isolation kept coming up for me. “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody” is a Buddhist anthem, ensconced in the interconnectivity of all beings, and the fraying of our social fabric. Our culture relies less and less on people. This breeds a new, unprecedented level of isolation. The promise we can buy our way out of that emptiness offers little comfort in the face of fear we all now live with – the fear of becoming obsolete. Something is off, and even though the feeling appears differently for each individual, it is universal. 

Technology is harvesting our attention away from each other. We all have a “Grapevine” entwined around our past with unresolved wounds and pain. Being in love doesn’t necessarily mean being together. Why else do so many love songs yearn for a connection? 

Could it be narcissism? We encourage each other to aspire – to reach for the external to quell our desires, thinking goals of wellness and bliss will alleviate the baseline anxiety of living in a time like ours. We think the answer is outside ourselves, through technology, imaginary frontiers that will magically absolve us of all our problems. We look everywhere but in ourselves for a salve. In “God Turn Me into a Flower,” I relay the myth of Narcissus, whose obsession with a reflection in a pool leads him to starve and lose all perception outside his infatuation. In a state of great hubris, he doesn’t recognize that the thing he so passionately desired was ultimately just himself. God turns him into a pliable flower who sways with the universe. 

The pliable softness of a flower has become my mantra as we barrel on towards an uncertain fate. I see the heart as a guide, with an emanation of hope, shining through in this dark age. Somewhere along the line, we lost the plot on who we are. Chaos is natural. But so is negentropy, or the tendency for things to fall into order. These songs may not be manifestos or solutions, but I know they shed light on the meaning of our contemporary disillusionment. And maybe that’s the beginning of the nuanced journey towards understanding the natural cycles of life and death, all over again. 

Thoughts and Prayers,
Natalie Mering (aka Weyes Blood)

[Everyperfectsummer]

17 minutes ago, RideOrDie said:

Hello Listener, 

Well, here we are! Still making it all happen in our very own, fully functional **** show. My heart, like a glow stick that’s been cracked, lights up my chest in a little explosion of earnestness. And when your heart’s on fire, smoke gets in your eyes. 

Titanic Rising was the first album of three in a special trilogy

HOLY F**K 

[theblackestday]

WWSSSSSSSS

[BODERLINE]

Love her, and love an interlude when it's done well and has good tracklist placement. But what even is the point of a 14 second interlude 

[bestfiction]

I like the cover but I wish there was more going on, maybe some background idk 

[JoeAg]

wow that letter  negentropy is one of my new fav words methinks 

[Antisocialites]

I'm so excited

[TrueBlood]

2 hours ago, RideOrDie said:

Hello Listener, 

Well, here we are! Still making it all happen in our very own, fully functional **** show. My heart, like a glow stick that’s been cracked, lights up my chest in a little explosion of earnestness. And when your heart’s on fire, smoke gets in your eyes. 

Titanic Rising was the first album of three in a special trilogy. It was an observation of things to come, the feelings of impending doom. And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is about entering the next phase, the one in which we all find ourselves today — we are literally in the thick of it. Feeling around in the dark for meaning in a time of instability and irrevocable change. Looking for embers where fire used to be. Seeking freedom from algorithms and a destiny of repetitive loops. Information is abundant, and yet so abstract in its use and ability to provoke tangible actions. Our mediums of communication are fraught with caveats. Our pain, an ironic joke born from a gridlocked panopticon of our own making, swirling on into infinity. 

I was asking a lot of questions while writing these songs, and hyper isolation kept coming up for me. “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody” is a Buddhist anthem, ensconced in the interconnectivity of all beings, and the fraying of our social fabric. Our culture relies less and less on people. This breeds a new, unprecedented level of isolation. The promise we can buy our way out of that emptiness offers little comfort in the face of fear we all now live with – the fear of becoming obsolete. Something is off, and even though the feeling appears differently for each individual, it is universal. 

Technology is harvesting our attention away from each other. We all have a “Grapevine” entwined around our past with unresolved wounds and pain. Being in love doesn’t necessarily mean being together. Why else do so many love songs yearn for a connection? 

Could it be narcissism? We encourage each other to aspire – to reach for the external to quell our desires, thinking goals of wellness and bliss will alleviate the baseline anxiety of living in a time like ours. We think the answer is outside ourselves, through technology, imaginary frontiers that will magically absolve us of all our problems. We look everywhere but in ourselves for a salve. In “God Turn Me into a Flower,” I relay the myth of Narcissus, whose obsession with a reflection in a pool leads him to starve and lose all perception outside his infatuation. In a state of great hubris, he doesn’t recognize that the thing he so passionately desired was ultimately just himself. God turns him into a pliable flower who sways with the universe. 

The pliable softness of a flower has become my mantra as we barrel on towards an uncertain fate. I see the heart as a guide, with an emanation of hope, shining through in this dark age. Somewhere along the line, we lost the plot on who we are. Chaos is natural. But so is negentropy, or the tendency for things to fall into order. These songs may not be manifestos or solutions, but I know they shed light on the meaning of our contemporary disillusionment. And maybe that’s the beginning of the nuanced journey towards understanding the natural cycles of life and death, all over again. 

Thoughts and Prayers,
Natalie Mering (aka Weyes Blood)

At first I thought it was you who were writing this.

 

This is ALL soo exciting, especially the trilogy part!

[BlackoutZone]

Trilogy? Ok mother

 

PS, Idk what that user meant cause there isn't any scrapped lead single? Perhaps they referred to previously registered song called Sleep Feelings that was suspected to be the lead, but is in fact a TR scrap that was almost released when she planned to drop little Titanic Rising B-Sides thing.

[truthteller]

3 hours ago, RideOrDie said:

“It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody” is a Buddhist anthem, ensconced in the interconnectivity of all beings, and the fraying of our social fabric.

F*** ME UP 

[Unoriginal]

1 hour ago, BlackoutZone said:

PS, Idk what that user meant cause there isn't any scrapped lead single? Perhaps they referred to previously registered song called Sleep Feelings that was suspected to be the lead, but is in fact a TR scrap that was almost released when she planned to drop little Titanic Rising B-Sides thing.

tag me u slag (unless you meant teddystears in which case sorry bestie)

 

i was just going off this

  

On 9/8/2022 at 7:45 PM, teddytears said:

-First single was supposed to be another track that did not make the album the actual one is cute 

 

[BlackoutZone]

16 minutes ago, Unoriginal said:

tag me u slag (unless you meant teddystears in which case sorry bestie)

 

i was just going off this

  

 

I obviously meant that teddy user hoe

A few other people brought that up after so I just responded collectively. Maybe they can come back and reveal what the supposed scrapped lead

[sam.teas]

5 hours ago, RideOrDie said:

Titanic Rising was the first album of three in a special trilogy

oh my... 

[JoeAg]

OMG IT’S STUNNING  Wild Time part 2!!

[JoeAg]

she sounds like f*cking Judee Sill in the last minute