“Passion is the only thing,” Natalie Mering sings on “Do You Need My Love,” the second taste from her upcoming Weyes Blood album Front Row Seat to Earth. “Passion must mean everything,” she quickly continues, as if still hoping to convince herself. The song is exhilaratingly ambiguous, perched forever in the purgatory between asking the title question and hearing it answered. Mering’s ever-commanding voice is draped here in stately psych-pop harmonies, AM-gilded keys, and baroque flourishes, all neatly placed just so. “Do You Need My Love” climaxes with the stormy drone of a bridge… read more
“Passion is the only thing,” Natalie Mering sings on “Do You Need My Love,” the second taste from her upcoming Weyes Blood album Front Row Seat to E… read more
“Passion is the only thing,” Natalie Mering sings on “Do You Need My Love,” the second taste from her upcoming Weyes Blood album Front Row Seat to Earth. “Passion must mean everything,”… read more
Weyes Blood (fka Weyes Bluhd and Weyes Blood and the Dark Juices) is Natalie Mering, a musician from Philadelphia, PA, United States, and ex Jackie-O Motherfucker bass player. Her solo work is raga-inspired, psychedelic music, using guitar strings as basic sound material and sound effects as an instrument. Home-made one string bass stick used to produce low bell-like sounds out of an horror movie. Most tracks have vocals, usually strangely deformed through effect pedals. Track editing and cueing is kept to a minimum in the DIY, abrupt tradition, giving freshness to the music. Weyes … read more