And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

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Breihan, Tom (October 11, 2022). "Weyes Blood – "Grapevine" ". Stereogum . Retrieved November 9, 2022. Dutchcharts.nl – Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 26, 2022. a b Griffin, Louis (November 16, 2022). "Album Review: Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow". DIY . Retrieved November 17, 2022.

I'm going to be honest, as much as I've tried to listen to this record as a standalone body of work, I simply cannot forget the unimaginably high bar that Weyes Blood has set for herself with Titanic Rising. Weyes Blood (November 18, 2022). "And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow". Bandcamp . Retrieved November 14, 2022. The Best Albums of 2022 Ranked". The Line of Best Fit. December 6, 2022 . Retrieved December 6, 2022. Meanwhile, the obvious vocal comparison is to Karen Carpenter, with whom Mering shares a controlled, velvety melancholy. And, like Carpenter’s music, there’s something curiously unknowable at this album’s centre. Just as it’s never entirely clear if Carpenter was intentionally freighting what was meant to be easy listening with an almost unbearable sadness – whether she was really pouring her own distress into her readings of songs or whether the listener is simply retrospectively projecting their knowledge on to the sound of her voice – it isn’t entirely clear whether everything Mering sings is meant in deadly earnest. When she blithely dismantles the initial optimism of The Worst Is Over – “I think it’s only just begun” – you find yourself wondering if you’re in the presence of a doomsayer or an exceptionally deadpan humorist. It makes And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow seem more of a puzzle than it first appears – one that’s an unalloyed joy to solve. This week Alexis listened to Could it be narcissism? We encourage each other to aspire – to reach for the external to quell our desires, thinking goals of wellness and bliss will alleviate the baseline anxiety of living in a time like ours. We think the answer is outside ourselves, through technology, imaginary frontiers that will magically absolve us of all our problems. We look everywhere but in ourselves for a salve. In “God Turn Me into a Flower,” I relay the myth of Narcissus, whose obsession with a reflection in a pool leads him to starve and lose all perception outside his infatuation. In a state of great hubris, he doesn’t recognize that the thing he so passionately desired was ultimately just himself. God turns him into a pliable flower who sways with the universe.

Technological agitation. Narcissism fatigue. A galaxy of isolation. These are the new norms keeping Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) up at night and the themes at the heart of her latest release, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. Spanishcharts.com – Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow". Hung Medien. Retrieved December 15, 2022.

Swisscharts.com – Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 28, 2022. a b Petridis, Alexis (November 17, 2022). "Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow review – gloom becomes a thing of beauty". The Guardian . Retrieved November 17, 2022.

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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.” a b "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 28 November 2022". The ARIA Report. No.1708. Australian Recording Industry Association. November 28, 2022. pp.10, 24. a b Kemp, Ella (November 15, 2022). "Weyes Blood: inside one of the year's most breathtaking records". NME . Retrieved November 17, 2022. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Smyth, David (November 17, 2022). "Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow album review - if this is doom, sign me up". Evening Standard . Retrieved November 17, 2022.