Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow - CLEAR COLOURED VINYL LP LOSER EDITION

Label: Sub Pop – SP1485
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Clear
Country: Europe
Released: 18 Nov 2022
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Dream Pop, Pop Rock, Indie Rock

A1 It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
A2 Children Of The Empire
A3 Grapevine
A4 God Turn Me Into A Flower

B5 Hearts Aglow
B6 And In The Darkness
B7 Twin Flame
B8 In Holy Flux
B9 The Worst Is Done
B10 A Given Thing

Celestial-influenced folk album ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’ is Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering)’s follow-up to the acclaimed ‘Titanic Rising’ (which Pitchfork, NPR, and The Guardian admiringly named as one of 2019’s best).

While ‘Titanic Rising’ was an observation of doom to come, ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’ is about being in the thick of it: a search for an escape hatch to liberate us from algorithms and ideological chaos. “We’re in a fully functional shit show,” Mering says. “My heart is a glow stick that’s been cracked, lighting up my chest in an explosion of earnestness.”

‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’ opens with the wistful, winsome ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’, a song about the interconnectivity of all beings, despite the fraying of society around us. “I was asking a lot of questions while writing these songs. Hyper-isolation kept coming up,” Mering says. “Our culture relies less and less on people. Something is off, and even though the feeling appears differently for each individual, it
is universal.”

Other tracks follow in kind. The lullaby-like ‘Grapevine’ chronicles the splintering of a human connection. The otherworldly dirge, ‘God Turn Me Into a Flower’, serves as
allegory about our collective hubris. ‘The Worst Is Done’ is an ominous warning, set against a deceivingly breezy pop melody. “Chaos is natural. But so is negentropy, or the tendency for things to fall into order,” she says. “These songs may not be manifestos or solutions, but I know they shed light on the meaning of our contemporary disillusionment.”

Co-produced by Weyes Blood and Jonathan Rado, with engineering by Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief), and additional instrumentation by Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and Mary Lattimore.

Available to independent retailers on Loser Edition clear vinyl.

A1 It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
A2 Children Of The Empire
A3 Grapevine
A4 God Turn Me Into A Flower

B1 Hearts Aglow
B2 And In The Darkness
B3 Twin Flame
B4 In Holy Flux
B5 The Worst Is Done
B6 A Given Thing