{"id":87472,"date":"2019-04-06T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/06\/weyes-blood-titanic-rising-review-beauty-deep-enough-to-drown-in\/"},"modified":"2019-04-06T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T13:00:50","slug":"weyes-blood-titanic-rising-review-beauty-deep-enough-to-drown-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=87472","title":{"rendered":"Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising review \u2013 beauty deep enough to drown in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Sub Pop)Cinematic dreams and ecological fears unfurl gracefully on Natalie Mering\u2019s 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\u2019t have to work at all hard to impress.As Weyes Blood, however \u2013 a riff on Wise Blood, the title of Flannery O\u2019Connor\u2019s southern gothic classic \u2013 the 30-year-old has taken her instrument down some unexpected byways. On a track like Movies \u2013 the highlight of Titanic Rising, Mering\u2019s fourth and most assured album \u2013 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&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/apr\/06\/weyes-blood-titanic-rising-review-movies-sub-pop\" target=\"_blank\">Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising review \u2013 beauty deep enough to drown in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sub Pop)Cinematic dreams and ecological fears unfurl gracefully on Natalie Mering\u2019s 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\u2019t have to work at all hard to impress.As Weyes Blood, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}