A truly great album knows it is a distillation of the past, but pays its tributes and advances the medium a step forward. Titanic Rising nhận được nhiều lời khen ngợi từ các nhà phê bình âm nhạc đương đại. 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. You get the sense that these kinds of myths and movies are the lens through which Mering sees the world. Natalie Mering’s work under the name Weyes Blood feels less like a catalog of music and more like a journey. … Thread starter Anonymous; Start date Apr 10, 2019; A. But it turns out to be misdirection: “... for only half of us. “Everyone’s broken now/ And no one knows just how/ We could have/ All gotten so far/ From truth,” she sings on “Wild Time,” before adding, almost sardonically, “It’s a wild time/ To be alive.” Tellingly, the album begins and concludes with two different arrangements of the hymn “Nearer, My God, To Thee,” the song that the band on the Titanic supposedly played as the ship went down. Below is our updated running tally of the albums most frequently mentioned by individual music publications in their year-end top ten lists.
On Weyes Blood's radiant and beautifully anachronistic fourth studio album, Titanic Rising, Natalie Mering achieves a perfectly balanced synthesis between the … Anonymous Guest. Maybe searching for meaning becomes its own meaning, or maybe accepting the fact that we’ll never have any certainty is the way forward. The metaphor is clear: The ship is us.There are no easy answers in our world, and there are no easy answers in Weyes Blood’s, either. But if we, like the band on the Titanic, really are going down on a sinking ship, Mering seems to say, we may as well play ourselves off. The rest just feel bad.” Best of 2019. Titanic Rising, co-produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, is less of a departure from that sound than an expansion, but it still feels like a leap forward. Suggest Blurb. We just might become the stuff of myth. Recent Reviews.
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SAVE STEREOGUM: Donate to keep us in business and She wants to place herself in that lineage, connect herself to something larger. Full Review. 10 videos Play all Titanic Rising Weyes Blood Mazzy Star - Fade Into You - 10/2/1994 - Shoreline Amphitheatre (Official) - Duration: 4:23. Worst of 2019. The album was released by Sub Pop on April 5, 2019 to critical acclaim. Apr 10, 2019 #1 If the Carpenters songs were written by Neil Young and George Harrison and … Instead, it feels like Mering knows exactly where she’s going. She says it herself: “I wanna be in my own movie/ I wanna be the star of mine.”As much as Weyes Blood sounds like the past, though, “At night I just lay down and cry,” Mering admits on the spacey slide-guitar ballad “Something To Believe,” before asking, “Give me something I can see/ Something bigger and louder than the voices in me/ Something to believe.” On the stripped-down penultimate track “Picture Me Better,” she says that’s she’s “Waiting for the call from beyond/ Waiting for something with meaning/ To come through soon.” And she’s not alone.
But if any song here will push Weyes Blood to new ears and new heights, it’s “Everyday,” a tightly wound baroque-pop song with a sprightly gait that cleverly contrasts Mering’s anxious lyrics: “True love is making a comeback …” she sings against a ‘60s-style wall of sound, stoking a bit of optimism. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising AOTY - 91% with 20 professional critics on metacritic. 80. Titanic Rising doesn’t feel blissfully adrift. “The meaning of life doesn’t seem to/ Shine like that screen,” she sings on album centerpiece “Movies,” an ode to cinema as the modern myth-making device. Alternative on MV 16,602,435 views Titanic Rising is the fourth studio album by Weyes Blood, ... Based on 25 reviews from mainstream sources, the album received universal acclaim and an average Metacritic rating of 91. I don’t know. And a cool arpeggiated synth snakes through “Movies,” Mering’s unhurried love/hate letter to the cinema and inescapable consumption. Directed by John Tindall. Although many of the lists come from publications whose reviews are included on this site, we have also included extra lists from prominent music stores, websites, a few radio stations, and publications not normally found in Metacritic's music section.