Lying In The Wake Of Overwhelming Changes

I've only featured Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood here once before, when she featured in a Bob Dylan / Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands post. She's released four albums in the past ten years or so though I only became aware of her music when her last album Titanic Rising regularly popped up in 'best of' countdowns in 2019.

 

Weyes Blood's fifth album And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow is out in a month's time, preceded by lead single and opening song It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody, six beautiful minutes that channel Karen Carpenter and John Grant to stunning effect. The video's pretty wonderful, too.

 

Sitting at this party 

Wondering if anyone knows me 

Really sees who I am 

Oh, it’s been so long since I felt really known 

 

Fragile in the morning 

Can’t hold on to much of anything 

With this hole in my hand 

I can’t pretend that we always keep what we find 

Yes, everybody splits apart sometimes 

 

Living in the wake of overwhelming changes 

We’ve all become strangers 

Even to ourselves 

We just can’t help 

We can’t see from far away 

To know that every wave might not be the same 

But its all apart of one big thing 

 

Oh, it’s not just me, it’s not just me 

It’s not just me, it’s everybody 

 

Mercy is the only 

Cure for being so lonely 

Has a time ever been more revealing 

That the people are hurting 

Oh, it’s not just me, I guess it’s everybody 

Yes, we all bleed the same way 

 

Oh, it’s not just me, it’s not just me 

It’s not just me, It’s everybody

Oh, it’s not just me, it’s not just me 

It’s not just me, It’s everybody

 

And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow is available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats, the latter offering up another song, Grapevine, that promises a hugely satisfying album and a late contender for my end of year album round up.

 

 

As Natalie says in the album press release, Weyes Blood is "still making it all happen in our very own, fully functional shit show".