(Sub Pop)Cinematic dreams and ecological fears unfurl gracefully on Natalie Mering’s gorgeously smart fourth albumIt is, frankly, a miracle that Natalie Mering is not making polite, middle-of-the-road lady-muzak. Languid and disarming, her voice has a potent, old-school beauty that doesn’t have to work at all hard to impress.As Weyes Blood, however – a riff on Wise Blood, the title of Flannery O’Connor’s southern gothic classic – the 30-year-old has taken her instrument down some unexpected byways. On a track like Movies – the highlight of Titanic Rising, Mering’s fourth and most assured album – it gradually unfolds, first as an intimate, conversational presence playing off against a looped analogue keyboard run whose roots are in the systems music of the 70s electronic avant garde. Continue reading…
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