Weyes Blood

Weyes Blood is Natalie Mering, a singer, songwriter and musician born in 1988 and raised mostly in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, who has been performing her own songs under some version of the name since 2003. She came up through the underground noise scene, played bass in an experimental rock group out of Portland, Oregon, and sang for the band Satanized before her own work pulled her toward softer, stranger pop and folk.

The early records came out under the spelling Weyes Bluhd, starting with Strange Chalices of Seeing in 2007. The Outside Room, in 2011 on the tiny Not Not Fun label, was the first as Weyes Blood, and after signing to Mexican Summer she released The Innocents and Front Row Seat to Earth.

Then Sub Pop, and the leap. Titanic Rising, in 2019, and And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, in 2022, drew wide acclaim, and it is easy to hear why: a grand, swooning sound of lush, orchestral psychedelic folk sung in a rich, unhurried voice that recalls the great singer-songwriters of an earlier age. "Everyday" is the sunniest moment, a bittersweet romp, while "Grapevine" drifts along like a slow drive with the windows down.

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