Titanic Rising
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Titanic Rising
Titanic Rising is the fourth studio album by American musician Weyes Blood, released on April 5, 2019 by Sub Pop. On January 17, 2019, Weyes Blood released the album's first single, "Andromeda". A second single, "Everyday", was released along with an accompanying self-directed music video on February 12, 2019. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Natalie Mering’s fourth album is a grand, sentimental ode to living and loving in the shadow of doom. It is her most ambitious and complex work yet.
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The Guardian
Beauty deep enough to drown in.
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Rolling Stone
Natalie Mering’s blissful vintage pop trip has freakouts lurking just out of frame.
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Stereogum
Despite all that foreboding, Titanic Rising doesn’t feel hopeless. Maybe that’s because the album is so damn pretty.
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Spill Magazine
Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, makes time stand still.
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NPR
'Titanic Rising' Is Consumed By The Celestial.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
In taking into account what matters, with a firm eye on the horizon, she raises sunken spirits and steers us out onto the open sea.
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NME
Titanic Rising’ makes you smile even as it explores existential dread.
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Pop Matters
Weyes Blood (a.k.a. Natalie Mering) conjures up a beautiful, cinematic world through with her insightful songwriting on Titanic Rising.
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The Line of Best Fit
Weyes Blood plumbs new depths and produces a masterpiece on new LP.
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A.V. Club Music
Weyes Blood ascends to new musical heights on the lush, cinematic Titanic Rising.
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A.V. Club Music
Weyes Blood’s Titanic Rising is a stunning early contender for album of the year.
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Variety
“Titanic Rising” is a new peak for a rapidly maturing and utterly distinctive artist.
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DIY Mag
Equal parts beautifully delicate and powerful.
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NOW Toronto
Weyes Blood takes a big leap forward on Titanic Rising.
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Crack Magazine
While critics might label Mering a throwback on account of how heavily she mines 60s and 70s sounds, there’s always just enough of her own contemporary spin to mark her out as a truly unique voice.
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Hotpress
Excellent baroque pop from US singer.
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Paste Magazine
A compelling listen.
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Thank Folk For That
The newest album from Weyes Blood, the Flannery-O’Connor-inspired moniker for the musician Natalie Mering, takes an emotional, no holds barred dive through a sonic landscape of desire, glory, loneliness, and, ultimately, hope.
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The Young Folks
Titanic Rising is a rewarding listen, and although a few later tracks fade a bit too quickly, the atmosphere and imagery created through the first two-thirds create an album that is definitely worth spending some time with.
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No Ripcord
Titanic Rising is a lean, 40-minute recording that carefully considers her performative sentiments with fine craftsmanship.
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Atwood Magazine
[Has a] cinematic pull.
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Riff Magazine
Weyes Blood is otherworldly on ‘Titanic Rising’.
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Treble Zine
Dripping with so much wide eyed naïveté that it practically begs for you to laugh in its face. But Mering’s final words of the record are casually affecting: “Waiting for the call from beyond/Waiting for something with meaning/To come through soon.”
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The Breeze
Utilizing her hypnotic mezzo, confessional lyrics and vast symphonic apparatus, Weyes Blood has created something worth treasuring.
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Brown Daily Herald
Musician Natalie Mering’s 2019 release delivers nostalgia, futurism in dream-like pop ballads.
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Comm Media
“Titanic Rising” is easily one of the greatest albums of the year, and it would be difficult for any other to top such a masterpiece.
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Exepose
As Mering stated in her Pitchfork interview, we all need to feel a “sense of belonging and hope and purpose” and I certainly felt this after placing my headphones down.
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Sputnik Music
The cover only depicts part of the beauty within the album.
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The Music
There is a stately magnificence about this album.
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KTSW 89.9
Wering successfully put together a near masterpiece by collecting her introspective ideas towards life and pasting them with her own blend of chamber pop and modern folk music.
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The New Hampshire
The Weyes Blood album “Titanic Rising” feels a lot like time-traveling.
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Indy Metal Vault
I don’t know if this’ll be my top pick for 2019 overall, but I doubt I’ll hear anything else more gorgeous.
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Soundblab
It’s thoughtful, endearing, but also risky and unpredictable, and is quite possibly the best album we’ve seen from Weyes Blood so far.
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The Times
Natalie Mering has a beautiful voice and mellow tunes, but there’s darkness beyond.
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Uncut
Disaster averted: reformed wyrd folkie finds hope beneath the cold surface.
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Glide Magazine
A CINEMATIC FLAIR INFORMS WEYES BLOOD’S TITANIC RISING ON EVERY LEVEL.
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Vinous
Such a dramatic sounding album deserves a dramatic wine. I’m thinking Hermitage, perhaps the 1991 from Jean-Louis Chave that I have always enjoyed. Yeah, that’s dramatic enough.
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WPTS Radio
Overall, Weyes Blood’s Titanic Rising offers a unique pallet of styles, each song reflecting on the broad themes of change, love, and the artificiality of our society.
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Gaga Daily
Absolutely stunning.
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Spectrum Culture
Mering’s soaring vocals and diaristic lyrics anchor the music in the here.
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Audioxide
Despite its glistening arrangements and ethereal production, this is a cheesy, yet excellently realised, pop album at heart.
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Audioxide
Natalie Mering’s vocals float above a kind of orchestral ambience, where synths and grand piano alike take on a ghostly pop tint. It’s very impressive.
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Audioxide
It’s a brilliantly put together album for sure, and my favourites may even hold strong and find themselves in my favourite singles of the year. Unfortunately, that fact isn’t enough to hold the rest of the album up.
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4 out of 5 Reviews
A CAREER-BEST FROM NATALIE MERING MEANS MORE DELIGHTFUL HARMONIES, BAROQUE LYRICS, AND FOCUSED SONGWRITING.
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Independent
Weyes Blood (Natalie Mering) accompanies her instrumental idiosyncrasies with strong, luscious melodies and unfussy lyrics on her fourth album.
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Loud and Quiet
On ‘Titanic Rising’, her fourth release under the Weyes Blood moniker, the LA-based musician has drifted further away from the psych-folk and ’70s Laurel Canyon of her early years and towards soft rock.
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UTRGV Radio
Weyes Blood is smiling during the apocalypse, and I’ll smile along with her, as we stand in the crossfire.
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Album Analysis
Easily a top album of 2019.
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Uproxx
Weyes Blood Serenades The Apocalypse On The Stunning ‘Titanic Rising’.
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Met Media
Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood is Surreal, Extravagant and a 2019 Best.
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Exclaim!
Titanic Rising may draw inspiration from the past, but it's ultimately a clear-eyed look at love, catastrophe and hope that's perfect for the present moment.
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Clash Music
An often remarkable record that captures the élan of stately melancholy.
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KTXT.fm
Throughout Titanic Rising, Mering’s vocals are delivered with clarity yet fall softly on the listener’s ears.
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Totally Dublin
Rooted in nostalgic tones from the 1970s, Mering merges the familiarity of the past with futurist tones (see synth arpeggios on Movies) whilst maintaining universality through her adept lyricism.
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The Needle Drop
Weyes Blood comes through with an immaculately produced and performed baroque pop album in Titanic Rising.
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WHIP Radio
After this release, there is no telling where Mering will go with her newfound creative freedom. Her next projects will certainly be highly anticipated.
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Album Reviews
Titanic Rising features some brilliant tracks, and the collision of warm soundscapes and cold dystopian themes is often captivating.
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The Bowdoin Orient
‘Titanic Rising’ is a masterpiece of mood and space.
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All Music
While all of Weyes Blood's albums leading up to Titanic Rising were good, even great, there's something that sets this one apart.
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Positively Underground
A philosopher your can see yourself in.
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The Wall Street Journal
Singer and songwriter Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, uses the trappings of classic pop to draw listeners in on an album that explores big ideas.
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Vinyl Chapters
The retro-futurist singer-songwriter Natalie Mering’s latest album is her most cohesive, accomplished and fully realised project to date.
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Riffs and Rhymes
Weyes Blood has created her own cinematic universe, one of breathtaking allure and poise. Few albums in recent memory are as strikingly beautiful.
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Eject Music
Natalie Mering’s fourth album Titanic Rising is her most complex and sophisticated project to date and one of the most captivating albums of 2019.
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Off the Tracks
All of her releases have been excellent. Compelling. A couple of them brilliant. This is her masterpiece.
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Stereoboard
‘Titanic Rising’ feels like a culmination of sorts for Mering as a writer. It has an ambitious palette that was perhaps beyond her early work, and the rich instrumentation brings out new highs in her vocal performance.
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mxdwn
Beautiful. Mystical. Transformative.
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Get into This
Proof that the slower burners are often the best.
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The Observer
Weyes Blood Makes Grandiose Statement with ‘Titanic Rising’.
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X-Press Magazine
Titanic Rising is a masterclass in baroque pop that could see Weyes Blood affectionately considered the musical equivalent of Father John Misty’s better half.
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13th Floor
Part of the beauty of Mering’s songwriting is the straightforward manner in which she’s able to communicate those complex emotions. And the lush soundscape doesn’t hurt either.
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Anhedonic Headphones
Titanic Rising, by all accounts, an impressive and ambitious album.
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Under the Radar Mag
Warm gallops slacken serenely and new spaces are birthed inside structures we thought we'd exhausted. That's the essence of creativity—-giving life.
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Indie30
For Mering, its more than mission accomplished.
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Surviving the Golden Age
Her age and talent point to the idea that her best work is still ahead of her.
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The Family Reviews
Happy to say I thoroughly enjoyed this work from my new “Birthday Buddy”!
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The Family Reviews
I haven’t heard a sound quite like this, that is being created in Weyes Blood’s Titanic Rising.
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BUST
A Dreamy Delight.
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Earbuddy
Natalie Mering's biggest, grandest album is also her best.
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Secret Meeting
She’s pastoral and explores a number of heavy themes, but the record’s bouyancy ensures it never succumbs to despair – the result is something wonderful.
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Mystic Sons
US frontawoman aims for higher heights on fourth full-length.
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Livewire1350
Titanic Rising offers an ear into the inner monologue of Weyes Blood, and through her use of poignant lyrics, beautiful harmonies and an orchestra of instruments, each track feels like a scene in the strange and sensational movie of her life.
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Eleven PDX
Titanic Rising, the latest album from Natalie Mering, AKA Weyes Blood, can be defined by its lush, orchestral melodies counterbalanced with moments of spare, wrenching introspection.
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Diandra Reviews It All
She is determined to use her music to capture life’s issues while telling her listener she does not have the answer, which is what she wished movies did more often.
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God Is in the T.V.
This is perhaps a metaphor for never giving up on hope, even during the sinking ship disaster that can be 21st century life.
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Booth Boy Productions
This is definitely one of the most artistic and gorgeous-sounding albums in a very long time.
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Bleached Mag
The majority of the songs that make up Titanic Rising feel like an entirely new Weyes Blood.
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Drunk Muskrat
It is a synthesis of sounds and ideas that mesh perfectly together to form something entirely her own.
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Greer's Ears
Titanic Rising is absolutely phenomenal.
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Los Angeles Times
Mixing warm, New Age-suggestive electronic tones with conversational, heart-to-heart lyrics meant to stick on first listen, her work floats through space with a glistening, emotionally rich shimmer.
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The New Yorker
Weyes Blood’s “Titanic Rising” Is a Lush, Grieving Soundtrack to Climate Change.
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