Week 4, revealed on Sunday 1 November
Weyes Blood
Titanic Rising, 2019
Nobody voted this week. The record still earned its place on the shelf.
About the record
This one came out in 2019. It doesn't sound like it.
Weyes Blood is Natalie Mering, a songwriter from California with a voice people keep comparing to Karen Carpenter. She made this record with the producer Jonathan Rado, using strings, piano and old synthesizers, and it could sit on the shelf next to the last three weeks without anyone noticing the forty years in between.
The songs are about now, though: falling in love through a screen, growing up on movies, a world that feels like it's going under. The bedroom on the cover is real. They built it and sank it in a swimming pool.
Start with "Andromeda" or "Everyday" if you want a way in. Then play it from the top. It's 42 minutes, and it ends with strings.