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Born Natalie Laura Mering in Santa Monica, California, the US musician’s debut album ‘Titanic Rising’ saw her hailed as the ‘millennial Joni Mitchell’ (wonder what Joni thinks of the number of times she’s been name checked in this way!?). Recording under the moniker Weyes Blood, she started making music under the name as a teen, inspired by the Flannery O’Connor novel Wise Blood.
In the years since, Mering has built a reputation for creating music of an almost otherworldly beauty, melding the swooning melodies of classic songwriters – her idols include Harry Nilsson and Hoagy Carmichael – After a decade in avant-garde noise bands and esoteric solo projects, her 2019 album, Titanic Rising, was a critical and popular breakthrough. She has collaborated with artists including Lana Del Rey and Perfume Genius, with whom she shares an affinity for off-kilter baroque pop and a vintage-leaning aesthetic, though her music sounds like little else that is being released currently.
Her follow-up, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, was written during the pandemic, “I was trying to process this idea of irrevocable change, and what that does to personal relationships, the damage it can do to people, because it’s so isolating.
